>>I guess it's time to start handling with tongs and hooks. Just kidding. I do think it is nice to see the increased interest in colubrid venoms. This is an interesting and rather unstudied branch of herpetology. I just hope that law makers and lay people don't misunderstand the risks associated with these findings.

This is another factor that I worry about. The "lay people" could completely misunderstand this and only "hear" the rat vemon is as toxic as a corba`s vemon and "Cry see we need to stop keeping these things as pets," etc.. Believe me a lot more has been done over a lot less infromation than this.
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