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I'm taking an exotic class which states that the 3 most toxic snakes in the world are the taipan,krait,and black mamaba.
and they refered to them as poisonous which i corrected them with the term venomous.
also i corrected them saying that the top 3 are fierce snake or inland taipan,kingbrown snake, and the taipan....or i think maybe the eastern brown was the second most toxic anyway i saw some recent researches that the krait might be second anything change?

can someone shed some light on this? so i dont look like a fool?
thanks
alex

I'd suggest going to Bryan Greig Fry's site (venomdoc.com) and clicking on his list of subcutaneous (most common bite) LD50's for mice. Hope it helps.

Bill Huseth

Also keep in mind that the term "most venomous" is somewhat ambigous:
Some people mean "most toxic" (lowest LD50).
Some people take into account toxicity and venom yield, which I don't think changes the top (this is what I use, yield/LD50).
LD50 is only truly valid for mice, and there really isn't any useful comparative data for effect on humans.

unless they did an LD50 study on people... I'm sure you could pay some bums to giver a try

ps, was that mean of me to say?