Did you ever play a game called "telephone" when you were a kid? Generally, every one sits in a circle, one person whispers something to the person next to them, it's passed around the circle and you see how much a simple sentence changes by the time it gets back to you...

I think some of this started with someone who read somewhere that cobra fangs have a grove in the front (it's closed though), read somewhere else that some snakes have "grooved teeth" rather than fangs which makes for an inefficient delivery system and got them mixed up in the retelling.

Someone else heard/read this and put it together with reading that rear-fanged snakes have grooved teeth, and before you know it cobras have to chew on you and coral snakes are rear-fanged and can hardly envenomate a human...

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• GBR Press: Pet shop worker bitten - W von Papineäu, Wed Jun 14 13:30:38 2006
• GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed it - W von Papineäu, Wed Jun 14 19:46:19 2006
• RE: GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed - Venomjunkie, Wed Jun 14 22:31:01 2006
• RE: GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed - Fortiterinre, Wed Jun 14 23:47:56 2006
• RE: GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed - LarryF, Thu Jun 15 00:05:51 2006
• RE: GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed - Fortiterinre, Thu Jun 15 08:53:58 2006
• RE: GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed - LarryF, Thu Jun 15 13:54:14 2006
• RE: GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed - LarryF, Wed Jun 14 23:52:17 2006
• RE: GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed - Venomjunkie, Thu Jun 15 00:07:17 2006
• RE: GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed - Greg Longhurst, Thu Jun 15 07:23:20 2006
• RE: GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed - canadianherper04, Thu Jun 15 09:41:23 2006
• RE: GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed - Fortiterinre, Thu Jun 15 11:20:40 2006
• RE: GBR Press: Cobra bites hand that fed it - frank_b, Thu Jun 15 06:48:33 2006
• Why on Earth is........ - orinoco, Thu Jun 15 22:08:33 2006
• RE: Why on Earth is........ - frank_b, Fri Jun 16 04:19:44 2006
• GBR Press:Bitten man on road to recovery - W von Papineäu, Fri Jun 16 19:03:48 2006