who'd win in a fight: the great white shark or saltwater crocodile? (I love these silly arguments! :-) )
-- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net mike wilson wrote: >>From: "John Forbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Date: 2006/09/05 Tue AM 09:50:42 GMT >>To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: OT: The Croc Hunter is no more >> >>On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:50:13 +0100, mike wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >> >> >>>John Forbes wrote: >>> >>> >>>>King Cobras are not much smaller, but I'd rather be bitten by a python. >>> >>>King Cobras are much, _much_ smaller than the largest constrictors. >> >> From Wikipedia: >> >>K Cobras 18.5 ft (it doesn't mention a record, but I have seen mention >>of 24 ft.) >>Pythons 20 ft (the record is 32 ft. I don't suppose the person who >>met the biggest cobra lived to tell the tale!) >> >>I don't know what the average size of a King Cobra is, but in East Africa >>(home of many pythons) you seldom see a python longer than 15 ft. So >>"much, much, smaller" is not, in my view, correct. > > > Well, Cobras are a fair bit shorter and the largest constrictors (I'm not > getting into the Python/Anaconda argument) are considerably greater in girth, > so in my view it is. 8-) I wasn't aware of any geographical restrictions on > the discussion..... > > >> >>>>And as for Black Mambas... give me a croc any day. >>> >>>You might have a better chance of running from a croc but, if either of >>>them got to you, the Mamba might be a quicker way to go. Neither would >>>be painless. >> >>Black Mambas are big, very poisonous, fast, and, crucially, extremely >>aggressive. George Ionnides, the greatest snake collector of all, feared >>no other snake but gave Black Mambas a very wide berth. His book, if you >>come across it, is an excelent read. >> >>You can meet them anywhere, and if you are close they will usually >>attack. With crocs, you know where they will be, and if you have any >>sense you will be on land, in which case it is quite likely that they will >>be basking in the sun like a coster, and give you no trouble. >> >>Black Mambas are thought to kill more people in coastal East Africa than >>all other wild-life combined. >> >>And incidentally, I wouldn't choose to be bitten by a python. I was >>simply voicing a preference if the alternative were a King Cobra. >> >>John > > > I thought we were comparing crocs and mambas? My point is that, if either of > them actually gets to you, the mamba would probably be the quicker way to go. > Not exclusively and neither pleasantly. > > Enough morbidity! Let's talk about photography. Does Pentax make a lens > long enough to shoot mambas in the wild? I think the 600/4 would be more of > a burden than an asset. > > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.ntlworld.com > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software > Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
