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RE: SNAKE VENOM
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by LarryDFishel on February 27, 2008
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Yes, very interesting. It sounds like poisoning from the anole (other than from envenomation) is ulikely. I have seen a couple of snakes become paralized for no identifiable reason, so it could just be a coincidence, but maybe worth some investigation.
My first thought was that drinks with cobra venom are a pretty common tourist thing in parts of Asia and no one seems to have problems with it, but two things come to mind now that I think of it.
1) Coral snake venom may be highly specialized for killing snakes (I bet pigmy's are on the menu). I've never seen research on this, bit it may exist.
2) Over the last few weeks I've seen one foodie show where the host was treated to a meal of cobra, whuch was of course actually rat snake, a video of a "cobra show" that was also done wih rat snakes, and found through my own research that most of the "cobra wine" sold to tourists actually contains harmless water snakes posed and stuffed to look like cobras...and no one seems to be able to tell the difference. So who knows if any tourist has ever actually consumed cobra venom...
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by soberwolf on February 27, 2008
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Pretty wild stuff. One of the Ojatro videos on Florida snakes the host drank Adamanteous venom . I guess the stomach acid nutralizes the protiens. Then we are talking about 2 different things with the Anole and an Elapid.. Sounds pretty interesting tho
Shelby
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