"The key here is that we have isolated and characterised the archetypal cobra-style toxins (called 'three-finger toxins' in case you care) from various 'colubrids'. Some of these snakes are pumping out huge amounts of venom, easily into the lethal range. This includes commonly kept species like Telescopus."

So What!!??!! This proves nothing at all but their venom may prove harmful to mice not man. If their venom was so lethal there would be a lot people dieing from their pet snakes, at least a lot of sick people. But guess what?, there is none. Species like Telescopes are not commonly kept as pets. A commonly kept pet snake would be a corn snake, ball python and kingsnake, NOT Telescopes. The very few that are sold are sold under rear-fang-ed snakes snakes by dealers only to adults. If you don't believe me go look at the kingsnake.com classifieds,now look at the colubrid section and you will see there is no Telescopes or Psammophis for sale, mater of fact I have never seen these snakes for sale on the colubrid section.I hate to say this but I'am starting to believe Ray and so are a lot of other people.

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• Is BGF The new Clifford Warwick? - rayhoser, Sat Aug 23 19:16:41 2003
• RE: Is BGF The new Clifford Warwick? - Trust, Sat Aug 23 21:30:05 2003
• Who's Clifford Warwick? - paalexan, Sat Aug 23 22:35:46 2003
• RE: Who's Clifford Warwick? - WW, Sun Aug 24 02:09:06 2003
• Dollars and dollars - rayhoser, Sun Aug 24 19:16:55 2003
• RE: Dollars and dollars - BGF, Sun Aug 24 20:16:27 2003
• RE: Who's Clifford Warwick? - Phillip, Sun Aug 24 20:03:27 2003
• RE: Who's Clifford Warwick? - BGF, Sun Aug 24 20:14:56 2003
• True colours - BGF's own words - rayhoser, Sun Aug 24 22:15:02 2003
• RE: True colours - BGF's own words - BGF, Sun Aug 24 23:16:31 2003
• RE: True colours - BGF's own words - M5, Mon Aug 25 00:31:40 2003
• RE: True colours - BGF's own words - BGF, Mon Aug 25 07:16:13 2003
• RE: True colours - BGF's own words - M5, Mon Aug 25 08:06:36 2003
• RE: True colours - BGF's own words - WW, Mon Aug 25 09:08:51 2003
• RE: Who's Clifford Warwick? - WW, Mon Aug 25 00:56:01 2003
• A more reasonable interpretation - rayhoser, Mon Aug 25 03:36:55 2003
• RE: A more reasonable interpretation - BGF, Mon Aug 25 07:17:21 2003
• RE: A well known fact - Ferdelance_1, Mon Aug 25 16:45:46 2003
• RE: Who's Clifford Warwick? - paalexan, Mon Aug 25 16:44:11 2003
• RE: Is BGF The new Clifford Warwick? - Rick gordon, Mon Aug 25 12:22:38 2003
• RE: Is BGF The new Clifford Warwick? - rearfang, Tue Aug 26 19:06:44 2003