![]() Still, Sauvage's snail eaters and golden lanceheads are kind similarly golden-colored, which means that the Sauvage's snail-eater could still make you behave irrationally and back up into a golden lancehead and get bitten anyway. And Sauvage's snail-eaters are non-venomous and therefore mostly harmless to anything that does not have a shell and a disgusting habit of leaving a silvery slime trail everywhere it goes, so we're all super excited about that. Luckily for Snake Island's snail population, a 2005 study concluded that the island's population of Sauvage's snail-eaters were basically the same species as those found on the mainland, so unlike the golden lanceheads, there was no freakishly terrifying evolutionary trajectory blessing them with snail-killing laser beams coming out of their eyes or anything. Snake Island is home to another snake species, called Dipsas albifrons, or Sauvage's snail-eater. So do the horrible math, and then check out this list of all the other horrible things you probably really didn't want to know about Snake Island.īut golden lanceheads are not the sole slithery occupant of Snake Island. Also the island is a mere 110 acres, which by the way is less than one-fourth of a square mile. The lanceheads can grow to be over a foot-and-a-half long and it’s estimated that there are between 2,000 and 4,000 snakes on the island, which unsurprisingly is known as Snake Island. It's called that because it's home to one of the deadliest snakes in the world and oh yeah, there are literally thousands of them. The danger on the island comes in the form of the golden lancehead snakes a species of pit viper and one of the deadliest serpents in the world. Because Snake Island isn't called "Snake Island" because of the way it's shaped or because someone once saw a rainbow boa hanging from a tree or something. ![]() It's located about 90 miles off the coast of Sao Paulo, and from above it looks stunningly beautiful - it's got lush green forests, a beautiful rocky shoreline, sun, and surf - what more could an intrepid traveler want in an exotic destination? Besides, you know, the absence of actual mortal peril. It sounds kind of like the name of some dumb reality TV show (actually it sort of is thanks, Discovery Channel), but Snake Island is a real place, and that's what people actually call it, although locally it's known as Ilha de Queimada Grande. ![]()
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