This snake is a beautiful array of colours and is known for eating its own kind. Many people say it looks like plastic. There are more than sixty species of coral snakes living thought-out Latin America
This snake covers the whole colour spectrum, theses snakes come with the most concentrated venom out of any snake in Latin America, most of these snakes can get miss identified as false corals.
They are known for having the worlds second deadliest poison known. It can kill a human within hours of being bitten some researchers say they rather be bitten by a rattlesnake than a coral snakes.
In Central America coral snakes are responsible for 1-2% of snakes bites hats hundreds every year. However fatalities have been rare since anti-venom was developed in 1960s.
