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Life Sciences => Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution => Topic started by: thedoc on 20/10/2013 09:58:12

Title: Are snakes susceptible to their own venoms?
Post by: thedoc on 20/10/2013 09:58:12

Are snakes susceptible to their own venoms?
Asked by Penny McNeil


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Title: Are snakes susceptible to their own venoms?
Post by: blakestyger on 12/04/2009 22:40:18

There are humoral factors in the snake's blood that protect it from its own toxins - but this is answered in full by TNS here:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/questions/question/1913/

Title: Are snakes susceptible to their own venoms?
Post by: thedoc on 21/04/2009 19:22:29

Listen to the answer to this question on our podcast. (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/show/2009.05.02/)

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Post by: Matthew Moroney on 13/11/2014 16:53:50

Great article, however this article in the National Geographic suggests otherwise (particularly for cobras that use neurotoxins). Does the above only refer to vipers and large doses of venom?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/02/0220_040220_TVcobra.html

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Post by: LEON POWELL on 20/05/2016 01:01:29

I have been living in the Arizona desert for 66 years and twice in my life I have seen a rattlesnake bite itself when I was teasing them with a long stick. They were both stone cold dead within 30 seconds, they didn't even have the normal dying quivers.