Successfully decoding the island mystery has hundreds of poisonous tiger snakes blinded

On the South Australian island, the BBC's famous filmmakers found hundreds of blind snakes and head injuries. Is this the characteristic of the 'residents' on this desert island or do they have some strange syndrome?

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Sir David Attenborough, an English naturalist, author of the documentary series "Life in cold Blood" has found the answer to the strange phenomenon of cobra snakes on this uninhabited island.

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Tiger Snake is a poisonous snake that ranks third in the list of "Top 10 most dangerous snakes in Australia" voted by Australiangeographic. This snake possesses a colorful appearance and powerful nerve venom.

But, the cobra is not the "king" of this island, it is also the 'home' of one of their strongest enemies, the silver gulls. The cobra always tries to find a way to kill this enemy but they encounter a strong gull protest. With high legs, strong hard beaks and wings, gulls are ready to use the "pounding" dozens of hits on the snake's head when they see them approaching.

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And this is the cause of the BBC film crew seeing hundreds of tiger snakes on this island permanently blind and hurt at the head. Fortunately for snakes, without eyesight they can "smell" the sugar and the prey with their extremely sensitive tongue. Therefore, the cobra can 'sneak' into the nest of young birds foraging, not starving.

Video excerpt from Sir David Attenborough in the "Life in cold Blood" documentary series on cobra.(Video: BBC)

The cobra has the scientific name Notechis scutatus. This is a native Australian snakes, inhabiting mainly in the southeastern coast of Australia, from New South Wales and Victoria to Tasmania, and in remote South Australia.

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Cobra is Australia's third venomous snake.(Photo: Internet.)

Cobra venom includes powerful neurotoxin, haemolysin, blood clot and myotoxin. When bitten, the victim will experience local pain in the legs and neck area, tingling, and sweating, followed by a rapid onset of dyspnea, paralysis and death without timely medical intervention time.

The adult cobra has a vivid color with stripes like tiger skin, from light yellow to black along a solid body, the solid belly is colored from lemon yellow to orange. When mature, the snake can reach 2m in length.

There are 6 different types of tigers, their names depend on the natural areas they inhabit in Australia, including: Western Cobra, Chappell Cobra, King Tiger Cobra, Tasmanian Tiger, Cobra peninsula, and cobra.

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