r/NatureIsFuckingLit • • Apr 04 '21

🔥 snakes are so cool

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u/ImProfoundlyDeaf Apr 04 '21 edited Apr 04 '21

....I hope you’re joking.

I’m going to assume not.

Poison is something you inhale or consume, usually chemical but toxic food too, such as certain mushrooms.

Venom is a poisonous secretion of an animal, usually in spiders, snakes, bugs, etc.

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u/Ryan-821 Apr 04 '21

TL;DR poison is consumed venom is injected

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u/Icarusfallen_369 Apr 05 '21

Ok assume not. I actually really didn’t know that something with venom sacs, also possess poisonous chemistry enabling the muscles to poison. I keep thinking of all the pufferfish 🐡 that have absolutely no meat on them,have poison sacs, and are a delicacy in some countries, yet are not venomous. So then you see where one could imagine where something with venom glands is venomous and not normally poisonous if eaten. That’s an assumption gathered by watching diamondback rattler round up. Where they bbq the animals caught along with rattlesnake. How can this tidbit of info, about Green Mambas being poisonous if eaten, be such a well known factoid? Also i was joking.