KnightRod:
I've never heard of rattlesnakes in Nigeria.. How sure are you?

My mistake. I have edited

If it's really an eastern brown snake, then it is extremely venomous.

kirchofff:
what are u saying, mamba is d second most venomous snake in d world after inland taipan, rattle snake even made top five cos it releases a high volume of venom

Mambas have types just as cobras and rattlesnakes the eastern diamond is the craziest (I think)

Fortissimo:
If it's really an eastern brown snake, then it is extremely venomous.

Did you see the eyes and lack of fangs? Non vernomous

spartoo:
OH GOD, I LOVE SNAKES. VERY BEAUTIFUL CREATURES

shoro niyen??

ask lala

Movingcoil:
ohuhu in umuahia

Enyi, Iwu onye ebe ole? Nkata, Nkwoegwu, Afugiri, Umuagu, Umudiawa, Ofeme, Ekeoba, Umukabia?

dauntless15:
Its a snake that would have dealt with you if it was alive, jeez arent you scared?

I'm pretty sure ure still scared mere lukin @ d pix... lol

Mynd44:

Did you see the eyes and lack of fangs? Non vernomous

Ok seen. The OP said it was an eastern brown snake hence my response.

Dats a viper bro

You people have mind to hold this thing?

Mynd44:

Mambas have types just as cobras and rattlesnakes the eastern diamond is the craziest (I think)

oh maybe, but all I knw is that mambas have 100percent mortality rate(it's d only snake dat has 100% mortality rate...........very aggressive, fast and dangerous

Netfad:


I'm pretty sure ure still scared mere lukin @ d pix... lol

its not crawling out of my phone so am very safe and confident

Mckandre:
snakes re still deadly even when dead,a bone from a dead one is highly toxic and poisonous,a little prick into the skin can send u to an early grave.I will advice u mate, mind how ure playing with that things head.

OP, better listen to this advice. Fangs work like hypodermic needles. They just need to enter your skin to do the damage. Whether the snake puts it into you or you put your finger on it, the effect is the same.

hold up! are you guys all saying there are snakes that are non venomous?

if they are, what do they do, just live and be slimy? the first thing i think when i hear snake is venomous, so if they are some non venomous ones, it's disappointing.

Gaborone:


Found this, and your first post quite informative. Actually just read about snakes' killer reflexes. Never knew.

m glad it did,so whenever u see a freshly killed snake U RUN !

its d kind dt village pple send to their victims

MRBrownJ:


rattle snakes and mambas in Nigeria?! WTF!!!!! and here i was foolishly thinking that the Nigerian bushland was "free" from these deadly reptiles.

no way guy, i have seen more rattle snakes in my life than any other kind, Naija bush no free o

GogetterMD:

I guess it's better safe than not abi?
No time to be assessing the fangs and diamond shaped eyes before killing.

I'm still an animal rights activist though, buh I don't know of any endangered snake species currently

Animal rights ac... Where have you been? We the goats, sheep and chickens die every year in Nigeria. This salah was...

Save us.

Mckandre:
m glad it did,so whenever u see a freshly killed snake U RUN !

You bet.

GogetterMD:
Judging from a generalized classification, it's non-venomous cause of its rounded eyes, compared to the diamond shaped eyes of venomous species.
Again, it's just a rough guess.

Guy, snake na snake

Movingcoil:

No rattle snakes in Nigeria just mamba, some cobras even spitting cobra and some kind of viper.I've met the viper.

did you say no rattle snake?
abeg wait make i google wetin rattle snake look like in case i'm confusing iy

Movingcoil:

No rattle snakes in Nigeria just mamba, some cobras even spitting cobra and some kind of viper.I've met the viper.

did you say no rattle snake?
abeg wait make i google wetin rattle snake look like in case i'm confusing it

Crixina:
hold up! are you guys all saying there are snakes that are non venomous?

if they are, what do they do, just live and be slimy? the first thing i think when i hear snake is venomous, so if they are some non venomous ones, it's disappointing.

There are actually more non-venomous snakes than the venomous ones. Only about 15-20 percent of snakes are venomous.

Pictures of some non venomous snakes

GogetterMD:

We sure have a lot of venomous species in Nigeria. Mambas, Vipers and cobras, rattle snakes etc. They are all around the country.
I also didn't notice the fangs in this snake of yours, it's either absent or extremely short

Correction

Rattle snakes are indigenous to the Americas only.

Movingcoil:
This snakes are just much here, I don't normally kill them just thAt this one crossed the line. I released these ones when I caught them.
I just noticed that I released a viper back in backyard.

Don't ever shake me with that ur hands again, ever!!!!,

I no go ever collect food for ur hand again,

You go still use that hand swallow eba...hian men dey sha

Black mamba

Movingcoil:

Am very ultra busy and incapacitated now but I do plan in future to have an animal santuary.

Let me know when you do. I'll give my support and any ideas I get freely.

But what you can do is to identify the snakes present. In Nigeria we don't develop anti-snake venom. Ask at teaching hospitals and maybe think of contacting foreign bodies in South America (they have the most snakes and most development). Being them here, come to a lab (try in a university) and reverse-engineer the medicine. Produce and sell shots to villagers for N1000. Something affordable and try and get subsidies from WHO (they are in Nigeria).

UuzbaGuuzba:


Animal rights ac... Where have you been? We the goats, sheep and chickens die every year in Nigeria. This salah was...

Save us.

Animal rights activist for endangered species only.