![]() ![]() It is hard to find an exact count of the population as all the sources that I checked supplied different numbers. The snake’s venom can cause kidney failure, necrosis of muscular tissue, brain hemorrhaging and intestinal bleeding. Only this type of snake lives on this island and it is extremely poisonous:Ī bite from a golden lancehead carries a seven percent chance of death, and even with treatment, victims still have have a three percent chance of dying. As you can see from the photo above, they are a yellow almost brown colour. These creepy crawlies aren’t super big, they average a size of 28 to 46 inches in length. The common name for this type of snake is the golden lancehead viper. This island is over populated with one particular type of snake, the Bothrops insularis. The island itself is only about one hundred acres, but that still leaves a lot of room for snakes. Snake Island is located off the coast of Brazil and is also known as Ilha da Queimada Grande. I told myself I would never to that again.īased on this experience, you can imagine the fear I felt when I read about a place called “Snake Island.” I waited until the vendor came back for him and it was the longest five minutes of my life. I froze and didn’t want to disturb the snake. I glanced down at the orange snake, now completely coiled around my hand and he had fallen asleep. I looked around and the vendor had disappeared and I started to panic. Now I could actually say I have held a snake!Īfter about 30 seconds, I was more than ready to hand him back. I took some deep breaths and told myself this wasn’t that bad. I stretched out my arm and he draped the snake on top of my hand. It took everything in me to ask the vendor if I could hold one and he was more than happy to oblige. I remember the little guy was bright orange and only about a foot long. Years ago at a pet expo in Vancouver I forced myself to hold a small snake. ![]() As a kid, my big brother used to throw spiders on me all the time so that explains that one however, my fear of snakes, I could never quite figure out. Spiders are one of my biggest phobias and snakes come a close second. For some people, the scariest place in the world, Snake Island. ![]()
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