Mongooses are blessed with a gift from mother nature as the ultimate weapon to help them resist poison and preserve their lives against all poisonous snakes.

In Africa, the Black Mamba can be considered the animal that dominates the grasslands and rocky hills of Southern and East Africa because it possesses extremely powerful venom.

For African people, the black mamba snake is a terrifying obsession because many people die from its bites every year.

People here call the bite of a mamba snake “the kiss of death” because their terrible venom can cause an adult’s heart to stop beating in just about 30 minutes. Without timely medical intervention, it can lead to death.

For comparison, the black mamba’s venom is 3 times that of the African cobra (Cape Cobra), 5 times that of the king cobra (King cobra) and 40 times that of the Gaboon viper (Gaboon viper).

This means that just one bite from a black mamba snake will have enough venom to kill 80 people at the same time, equivalent to 20 African elephants.

In nature, just one bite of the Black Mamba can end the life of its prey within minutes.

With the world’s fastest crawling speed of 4.32 – 5.4 m/s (16 – 20 km/h), the black mamba is almost the King of the grasslands and hills in Africa.

They are called black mamba, but their skin color is actually olive, gray, and blue. The black color here refers to the black pigment in this snake’s mouth. Combined with a square, rectangular head, the black mamba snake is also known as a “mobile coffin”.

The battle to the death between the black mamba and the mongoose.

Because he admires the characteristics of this snake so much, from its speed to its venom, it is so impressive that world basketball star Kobe Bryant chose the nickname Black Mamba for himself.

With the nickname Black Mamba, Kobe Bryant brought the Lakers to the championship twice more in 2009 and 2010, and he also received both Finals MVP titles.

After 17 years of being associated with Black Mamba, people still refer to this nickname, it accompanies Kobe Bryant with a lot of glory, success and with that comes remembrance!

However, Mother Nature is also very fair, never allowing any animal to be too domineering, forever “proclaiming its heroism and dominating” one side.

That is also the reason why “no matter what life” animals like the mongoose were born.

This is a small animal, similar in size to a domestic cat, and belongs to a mammal.

Most mongoose species have small heads that are long and flat and gradually point towards the nose, short ears and rounded ear flaps.

The fighting weapon of this mongoose is long, sharp claws combined with strong jaws, along with quick and sharp intelligence, making any opponent wary.

But, the outstanding point that can make mongooses not afraid of “colliding” with cobras lies in their special anti-poison mechanism.

Surrounded by venom-immune membranes, venomous snakes of Africa must also become the focus of their meals.

Besides the body secreting an immune system to the venom, the technique of approaching and killing the prey is clever and delicate.

When attacking a cobra, the mongoose often erects its tail, confusing the poisonous snake. Mongooses, like many other snake predators, will try to bite a venomous snake from the back of the head.

If the badger once lost consciousness when bitten by a poisonous snake, the mongoose only needs to rest for a short period of time and its health can recover well and return to normal quickly.

The operating mechanism of this civet species is not fixed, because their hunting time can take place both day and night. They are quite diligent in finding food and their strongest hunting time is from dusk to midnight.