How many kinds of snake are poisonous?
Some people shudder when snakes are mentioned. Certainly some of the creepy crawlers are deadly horrors, but most of them are harmless creatures. It seems unfair to detest them all just because a few cannot be trusted. It is also sad because snakes are handsome, interesting and often useful. Many experts have had a go at counting the kinds of poisonous snakes one by one. But their answers do not agree. Perhaps some get missed or a few get counted more than once. In any case, you will find different answers in different books and if you ask several snake experts they, too, will give you different answers. However, all the answers are close. We can study them and settle on an approximate figure, one that is more or less in the middle. Most experts might agree that there are approximately 250 poisonous kinds of snake. But there may be a few more or a few less than 250. This seems like a lot of poison packers to be crawling around the world. But when you consider all the harmless snakes, t
