While a king cobra like Raja isn’t the most venomous in the world, his bite to mess around with.”A single bite is enough to kill several people, an elephant,” Rumsey stressed. During a recent milking session, ”we estimated that the venom yield was somewhere between 400 to 450 milligrams,” Rumsey said. ”To put this , a tiger snake here in Australia (the fourth most toxic snake in the word) would only put out about 45 to 50 milligrams of venom.” That’s why the uses “extreme caution” when handling and caring for Raja.
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