Beauty Is Deadly

Adult Blue Coral Snake

Young Blue Coral Snake

The other day when I came home from a snake presentation, I happened upon an episode of Naked and Afraid dedicated to *epic music* SNAKES! This episode showed all the snakes the survivalists came across in their 21 day endeavors while giving little snake tid-bits along the way. As I watched, there was one snake that truly caught my eye due to its pure beauty alone. This snake is entitled, Calliophis Bivirgatus, also known as the Blue Malaysian Coral snake. To find out more, I found a fellow blogger's page on this enticing creature. Turns out that the time most people are bitten by this snake is usually at nighttime due to its nocturnal sleeping schedule. Much like a rattle snake shaking its maraca tail, the Blue Coral snake will flash its red striped tail. IE, red means dead. And I truly mean DEAD. These snakes belong to a very poisonous family of snakes. When you're bitten by this gorgeous snake, there are no immediate problems (aside from one hell of a bite). That's because the snake's neurotoxic venom is now riding the fast paced highway referred to as the human bloodstream. After several minutes, the victim will start to feel some numbness and have some problems breathing. Eventually the victim will die of respiratory failure. Apparently, the deadly kiss of this snake is so bad, that it earned the name of the '100 pace' snake. If you couldn't guess, that's how many steps you take before you collapse. These snakes can be found in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. So, you don't really have to worry about running your lawn mower over these things in your backyard.
Article link: http://sakepedia.blogspot.com/2010/10/blue-malaysian-coral-snake.html