Extreme Situation

Snake

Some years ago, I saw a snake for my first time, It was the most traumatic situation I remember of my childhood.

That was a day when my mom asked me a favor that was go to the food storage for several bananas.

There my parents kept a lot of tubers and it was a room a little dark, and stacked. So I caught 1 banana and I didnt see anything, but when I caught the second one, I touched  with my hand something. Inmediately I scanned the tubers andnthere was a snake. The animal I afraid the most in my life and I was seeing one in that moment, Ok I not even thought, I just left the food storage and I ran like a lunatic. When my dad saw me run next him, he started yelling me. I told him what I had seen, then he went and he killed that snake. 

It was a Talla X snake as is called in Choco or Bothrops atrox according to Google. Right now I recall that scene and I cant avoid laughing but I also feel panic because that is one of the most dangerous snake I have listened. I have ever thanked tha It was sleeping and I didn't wake it up.

I want to talk you more about X snake: 

"These snakes are known to search for rodents in coffee and banana plantations. Workers there are often bitten by the snakes, which can lie camouflaged for hours, nearly undetectable, and strike with high speed. Their venom consists mostly of hemotoxin, a toxic protein that affects the circulatory and nervous system; it destroys red blood cells, and sometimes loss of memory occurs. They are much feared because their venom is particularly lethal and fast acting. Presently, treatment is usually possible if the victim receives medical attention soon enough.[11]Commonly, bites from this snake cause symptoms including nausea, blackouts, and paralysis. In almost all cases, temporary and sometimes permanent loss of local or 'short term' memory were reported”(Venomous Snakes of Guyana. (2006). [Blog] Iwokrama. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20060928154926/http://www.iwokrama.org/forest/snakes.htm [Accessed 24 Aug. 2017].)