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RE: Aspidelaps Venom

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Posted by: carmichael at Sun Jun 27 20:59:05 2010  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by carmichael ]  
   

Sure right about that Bryan! We fed our Aspidelaps lubricus a large adult mouse on several occasions; once, it struck and we though he missed the mouse. One minute later, the mouse was dead. The other times, the mice were dead w/in a couple of minutes. That's impressive!


>>..... and lethal Aspidelaps envenomations are on record.
>>-----
>>Dr. Bryan Grieg Fry
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>Venomics Research Laboratory,
>>Department of Biochemistry,
>>Bio21 Institute,
>>University of Melbourne
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>http://www.venomdoc.com
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Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL


   

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