>>That was the info I was looking for, thanks.

>>



I am firmly opposed to any blanket inclusion of all the different families of 'colubrids' into the category of venomous in regards to legislation. This would be an utterly assinine approach.



>>I guess as hognose forum users, we should always answer questions like these as, Venomous? Yes. Dangerous? NO.

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Exactly.



>>Question is now, do you consider the account in the following link to be a severe envenomation?



I would consider that to be about the maximum ability of a hognosed and certainly not life threatening and therefore not a severe envenomation. The localised effects were obviously rather 'interesting' but it was not life threatening nor was there permanent tissue damage.



Cheers

Bryan
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Dr. Bryan Grieg Fry

Deputy Director

Australian Venom Research Unit

University of Melbourne



www.venomdoc.com

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