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Did anyone else read this article? http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2463662
I mean they are venomous but I would definitely not classify our western hognose as an extremely dangerous animal. I guess we should be lucky that the dreaded Eastern hognose was not stolen instead.

Read bryans paper it will show you most coulubrids have toxins but just no way to deliver the toxins.
so it might have a toxin its not vemomous till it injects the toxin then it becomes a venom.
his paper is on
venomdoc.com

good day

Bud

Thanks man. I guess sarcasm doesnt come over to well when typed. I know they produce toxins and all that. But thanks for replying anyway. Oh and I have read Bryans paper. Take care man. Happy Super Bowl to all.

Chip

HI mate

They can deliver the venom via the rather enlarged back teeth. However enlarged teeth are not an essential ingredient, they were a refinement of the deliver process, not the decider as to venomous or not. Even the venomous rat snakes can deliver the venom via wounds created with their regular teeth. So, whether or not a snake is venomous is defined by whether or not they produce venom not the relative refinement of the delivery..

That said, its ludicrous to refer to them as dangerously venomous. Usual media drivel.

Cheers
Bryan
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Dr. Bryan Grieg Fry
Deputy Director
Australian Venom Research Unit
University of Melbourne

www.venomdoc.com

Only if a witch turned you into a toad. LOL

You tried to eat one and choked! That would be pretty dangerous.
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"The serpent crams itself with animal life that is often warm and vibrant, to prolong an existence in which we detect no joy and no emotion. It reveals the depth to which evolution can sink when it takes the downward path and strips animals to the irreducible minimum able to perpetuate a predatory life in its naked horror."
Alexander Skutch

...can I recommend sticking one up your nose. Bad things might happen.

>>Did anyone else read this article? http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2463662
>>I mean they are venomous but I would definitely not classify our western hognose as an extremely dangerous animal. I guess we should be lucky that the dreaded Eastern hognose was not stolen instead.

It's absolute b*ll*cks. Yup, they're venomous, yup, they can give you a swollen hand and forearm, but extremely dangerous??? Any medium sized dog can easily do more damage.

Just a bunch of people combining the unlovely character traits of profound arrogance and abject ignorance to make a pig's ear.

Cheers,

Wolfgang
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