what is a taipan?

Answer 1

A foreign businessman or a trader in China.
A foreigner who is a chief executive of a business or company operating in China; a tycoon.
[Chinese (Cantonese) taaî-paan, eminent businessman, head of a firm, equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) tái, big + bān, class.]


A large, extremely venomous elapid snake (Oxyuranus scutellatus) of Australia and New Guinea, having long fangs and large venom glands

Answer 2

a Taipan is a highly venomous snake found in South
east Asia and in Australia. It has a highly toxic venom, and is an odd snake. Most snakes are shy and avoid people. Not the taipan. if a person crosses its path it's more than likely that the snake will go out of its way to attack the person. It bites high up and many times. The venomous dose, of the bite, can be large.
Australian taipans have much more toxic venom than their Southeast Asian cousins. (what else is new, Oz has some of the most highly poisonous animals on the planet, e.g. snakes, jellyfish, fish, spiders, insects etc.)
There are two types of taipans in Australia. The highly poisonous coastal taipan, and the much more venomous inland taipan. The inland taipan was previously called the fear snake.
It is the most poisonous land snake in all of Australia. (the seagoing olive sea snake has an even more potent venom, but with smaller fangs, less venom, and is very shy).
The inland taipan is not very aggressive towards humans, if they stay out of the snake's way. (the coastal taipan is less tolerant).
Both Aussie taipans are more interested in hunting and consuming rats, and sometimes mice, their main diet.
Dan the Answers-Man
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Answer 3

1. The Inland Taipan is the most venomous snake on earth
see
http://www.barefootbushman.com/ptaipan.htm

2. Taipan comes from the swashbuckling entrepreneurs who amassed great fortunes from the China trade during the 19th century. The Chinese called these ambitious, money-making men "taipans" or big bosses.

http://www.taipanonline.com/

Answer 4

What Is A Taipan

Answer 5

* In literature, Tai-Pan is the second novel in James Clavell's Asian Saga
* Tai-Pan is the name of a 1986 film based on the James Clavell novel.
* Tai-Pan is the original name of a science fiction fanzine. It is now known as Tales of the Tai-Pan Universe.
* In computer gaming, Taipan was also a classic trading game for the Apple II and TRS-80.
* In the Chinese language, Tai-Pan was a term for foreign businessmen doing business in China or Hong Kong in the 19th century.
* Tai-Pan is also the nickname of Albert Cheng, a radio commentator-turn-politician in Hong Kong.
* A Taipan is a large Australian snake
* The Taipan 4.9 and Taipan 5.7 are high performance sailing catamarans made in Australia.
* The Taipan 28 is the name given to a series fiberglass-hulled Bermudan sloops built in Hong Kong in the early to mid-1970s.

Answer 6

Taipans are large (up to 3 metres in length), fast, highly venomous Australian snakes, one of which, the Fierce Snake, has the most toxic venom of any land species worldwide. The name derives from that of the Thaypan tribe of Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.

There exist two species: the common taipan, and the less common inland taipan (also known as the fierce snake and small-scaled snake) (Oxyuranus microlepidotus). The common taipan is broken up into two subspecies, the mainland coastal taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus scutellatus) and the Papuan taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus canni) which is native to the southern coast of Papua New Guinea. Their diet consists primarily of small rodents, especially rats and bandicoots.

The coastal taipan is usually pale to dark brown in colour, fading to a lateral cream, although juveniles are lighter in colour. The Papuan taipan is black or purplish-gray, with a copper-coloured stripe on its back.

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Venom and toxicity
The inland taipan is by far the most venomous snake on earth. With an LD50 of 0.01 mg/kg, it is about 10 times as venomous as a Mojave rattlesnake and 750 times as venomous as a common cobra. Lethal dose calculations are made on mice, so they have a mammalian bias. Even more so with this species of snake, as it is specialised to feed on rodents. These calculations might not neccessarily be applicable to non-mammalian species, and may even be inaccurate for mammals other than mice/rodents. The venom from a single bite of the inland taipan is potent enough to kill about 250,000 mice, or the mouse equivalent of 100 men. This species generally lives in remote and sparsely inhabited areas. Like most snakes, inland taipans are generally shy and will usually not bite unless they feel threatened. No fatalities have been attributed to this species, and all known bites have been to people who keep them in captivity or actively seek them out in the wild.

The common taipan is the third-most venomous snake on Earth and arguably the second-largest venomous snake in Australia (the first arguably being the mulga, or king brown, snake, Pseudechis australis). The danger posed by the coastal taipan was brought to Australian public awareness in 1950, when young herpetologist Kevin Budden was fatally bitten in capturing the first specimen available for antivenom research.


What is a Taipan?

Our name comes from the swashbuckling entrepreneurs who amassed great fortunes from the China trade during the 19th century. The Chinese called these ambitious, money-making men "taipans" or big bosses.

Also a company producing racing and luxury yachts

Answer 7

I think it may be a term for some one from Taipan, or Taipei, Taiwan.

Answer 8

An extremely poisonous snake that live in the far east and australia

Answer 9

An evil snake

Answer 10

Here lies the answer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipan