"The key here is that we have isolated and characterised the archetypal cobra-style toxins (called 'three-finger toxins' in case you care) from various 'colubrids'. Some of these snakes are pumping out huge amounts of venom, easily into the lethal range. This includes commonly kept species like Telescopus."



So What!!??!! This proves nothing at all but their venom may prove harmful to mice not man. If their venom was so lethal there would be a lot people dieing from their pet snakes, at least a lot of sick people. But guess what?, there is none. Species like Telescopes are not commonly kept as pets. A commonly kept pet snake would be a corn snake, ball python and kingsnake, NOT Telescopes. The very few that are sold are sold under rear-fang-ed snakes snakes by dealers only to adults. If you don't believe me go look at the kingsnake.com classifieds,now look at the colubrid section and you will see there is no Telescopes or Psammophis for sale, mater of fact I have never seen these snakes for sale on the colubrid section.I hate to say this but I'am starting to believe Ray and so are a lot of other people.

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