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Michael Zhang (October 1, 2016). "The Photographer Who Was Bitten by a Black Mamba… and Got the Shot". Petapixel.com. Retrieved October 1, 2016. Surviving a black mamba bite without treatment is so rare that Laita's story is now mentioned in Wikipedia's "black mamba" article.

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'Despite its reputation as a formidable and highly aggressive species, the black mamba attacks humans only if it is threatened or cornered.'

Also why there is no edit button for this page? Myhappytime2022 (talk) 23:30, 16 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Myhappytime2022: this article is semi-protected, that means that you need to be a confirmed user to edit it, you'll become one of them when your account be "at least 4 days old and have made at least 10 edits to the encyclopedia". Cheers Alexcalamaro (talk) 08:23, 19 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

king cobra

the eat you to 99.45.174.76 (talk) 18:43, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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-== Popular culture ==
+== Request for reference ==
-Many similar articles have a section on human relations, cultural depictions, in popular culture, or the like, where human relations with the animal, cultural depictions, myths and legends, parts in stories (films, books, etc.) throughout human history are discussed. I expected this animal to have that as well, and I expected to find a name-drop for Kill Bill in there. Seeing as this is an FA, I have to ask, has this particular animal never caught the imagination of any humans other than Tarantino, or what? Thanks! <b>[[User:Usedtobecool|<i><span style="color:#b9272b">Usedtobecool</span></i>]]&nbsp;<sup><small>[[User talk:Usedtobecool|<span style="color:#080">TALK</span>]]</small></sup>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Usedtobecool|✨]]</b> 06:29, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
-Yes!!! John Godey, who wrote "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three", also wrote a book called "The Snake", which funnily enough, is a story about a Black Mamba that gets loose in New York City. It is a terrifying and very exciting read. But there isnt really enough "meat" in the book to make a movie out of it.  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/2001:8003:E414:3A01:38DF:E8CB:50A1:9ADC|2001:8003:E414:3A01:38DF:E8CB:50A1:9ADC]] ([[User talk:2001:8003:E414:3A01:38DF:E8CB:50A1:9ADC#top|talk]]) 09:11, 6 September 2020 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-== Why “black”? ==
-The (current) article doesn’t explain the name. I checked archives (but not history).
-Why “black”?  “Grey” not scary enough?
-“Green” named earlier or later?
-Who named it?
-[[User:MBG02|MBG02]] ([[User talk:MBG02|talk]]) 02:39, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
-:From the colour of the mouth. I've added the info. [[User:Dodger67|Roger (Dodger67)]] ([[User talk:Dodger67|talk]]) 12:40, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
-==Venom Potency==
-It's hard to believe this a featured article, when even the units of measurements was inaccurate. I corrected the Units used. The scientific papers cited used micrograms, the wiki article had them in milligrams. As can be seen in this screenshot: https://ibb.co/4tdtwqJ [[User:Pincotti4|Pincotti4]] ([[User talk:Pincotti4|talk]]) 14:51, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
-:{{ping|Pincotti4}} The source uses μg/'''g'''. Our article uses mg/'''kg'''. 1 μg/g = 1 mg/kg. Please read the sources carefully before introducing errors in a featured article (or any other article, really). Best, [[User:RetiredDuke|RetiredDuke]] ([[User talk:RetiredDuke|talk]]) 10:41, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
+'Despite its reputation as a formidable and highly aggressive species, the black mamba attacks humans only if it is threatened or cornered.'
-:{{ping|Casliber}} Is snakedatabase.org a reliable source? It wasn't there at time of promotion, obviously (and it's formatted as an ugly url, that's why I noticed it in the first place). Can you please check? Thanks, [[User:RetiredDuke|RetiredDuke]] ([[User talk:RetiredDuke|talk]]) 10:44, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
-::{{yo|Pincotti4}} try to submit an appeal from one of the original accounts next time and it can be opened for a community discussion. [[User:Casliber|Cas Liber]] ([[User talk:Casliber|talk]] '''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Casliber|contribs]]) 11:02, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
+Also why there is no edit button for this page?
-:{{ping|Casliber}} Woah, I see this got you involved in a bit of a cleanup job. I went ahead and removed the sentence sourced to the website above, looked fishy to me. Just a heads up. [[User:RetiredDuke|RetiredDuke]] ([[User talk:RetiredDuke|talk]]) 14:44, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
+[[User:Myhappytime2022|Myhappytime2022]] ([[User talk:Myhappytime2022|talk]]) 23:30, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
-::{{ping|RetiredDuke}} not sure about snakedatabase.org as all people listed are admin/tech type people not researchers/scientists. However, the best use would be their use of references as a gateway to pee-reviewed literature. [[User:Casliber|Cas Liber]] ([[User talk:Casliber|talk]] '''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Casliber|contribs]]) 02:43, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
+:{{ping|Myhappytime2022}}  this article is [[WP:PPLIST|semi-protected]], that means that you need to be a [[WP:AUTOC|confirmed]] user to edit it, you'll become one of them when your account be "at least 4 days old and have made at least 10 edits to the encyclopedia". Cheers  [[User:Alexcalamaro|Alexcalamaro]] ([[User talk:Alexcalamaro|talk]]) 08:23, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
+== king cobra ==
-== Excessive describers in the lead ==
+the eat you to [[Special:Contributions/99.45.174.76|99.45.174.76]] ([[User talk:99.45.174.76|talk]]) 18:43, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
-"A large, extremely venomous" is excessive in my opinion because there is no clear threshold for any snake article to indicate the "extremity" in the lead unless we define "extremely" to be scientific (say, the LD50 value standard). Otherwise, we should delete such words.  <!-- Template:Unsigned --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:RoyalRover|RoyalRover]] ([[User talk:RoyalRover#top|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/RoyalRover|contribs]]) 11:27, 5 November 2020 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
-:O-kay, I replaced with "highly" - agree "extremely" is possibly excessive. [[User:Casliber|Cas Liber]] ([[User talk:Casliber|talk]] '''·''' [[Special:Contributions/Casliber|contribs]]) 08:28, 6 November 2020 (UTC)