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25-Oct-07, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by JoandDrew  Just a question, (probably a silly one), but when the python digests the RBB, he is digesting venom? Would this not do his insides harm? | Poison will harm if digested but venom needs to make contact with the blood to have an affect. The same as when a BHP eats there favourite meal of a death adder....
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25-Oct-07, 01:24 PM
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Poison will harm if digested but venom needs to make contact with the blood to have an affect. The same as when a BHP eats there favourite meal of a death adder....
| if it was digested wouldnt it reach the blood stream in the small intestine when absorption through the villi take it to the capilaries?
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25-Oct-07, 01:26 PM
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or the body would just reject it at the other end 
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25-Oct-07, 01:36 PM
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i think venom gets broken down by stomache acid and digestive enzymes.
i wouldn't be inclined to dismiss this story out of hand, i have heard plenty of stories of non-herp people catching and playing with deadly elapids, only to later discover that it was a tiger snake.
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25-Oct-07, 02:23 PM
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25-Oct-07, 02:23 PM
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maybe the "RBBS" was sick or injured. make it easier for the childreni to eat and could of felt to gross to strike? just a though
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25-Oct-07, 02:49 PM
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Not really Matty.
(Besides bad estimation of the size of the RBB)
Not sure how big his Childreni is, but it can easily fit a small redbelly in. There only skinny buggers and by the sounds of it it squashed it down good!
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25-Oct-07, 02:52 PM
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still, that is a BIG childreni, it would have to be full grown and then some.
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25-Oct-07, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by pugsly Not really Matty.
(Besides bad estimation of the size of the RBB)
Not sure how big his Childreni is, but it can easily fit a small redbelly in. There only skinny buggers and by the sounds of it it squashed it down good! | Post says the children's was 4 foot.
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25-Oct-07, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Thumpage44 I remember seeing the late Steve Irwin holding a rattle snake on his arm without it even thinking of biting, perhaps this guy has the same vibe about him that the snake found relaxing  | I also remember Irwin holding a RRB that was dead set intent on ending him. They arn't all so placid.
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25-Oct-07, 03:09 PM
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Oh and the story, I believe it as much as all the other storys I hear on a weekly basis told by non herp people.
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25-Oct-07, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by JasonL I also remember Irwin holding a RRB that was dead set intent on ending him. They arn't all so placid. | Are you sure that isn't the footage of the Spotted/Blue belly black snake trying to end him. I've seen countless hours of irwin footage and none of it had a red belly in it.
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25-Oct-07, 04:09 PM
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call me old fasioned but id be a bit skeptical of that yarn LOL
but stranger things have been true,
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25-Oct-07, 10:13 PM
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bs> nice story though
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26-Oct-07, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by womanator Are you sure that isn't the footage of the Spotted/Blue belly black snake trying to end him. I've seen countless hours of irwin footage and none of it had a red belly in it. | No, there are two shows with RBB's, one was in the early days when he had long hair, and was with Terri in a camping ground, and the other was a massive RBB on the edge of a dam. Both were very wild snakes and gave him hell.
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