How many poisonous snakes are there in the world ?

[dorigrass]

There is none in the whole world . You are getting confused with venomous snakes. Venomous snakes have venom that when they bite they put venom in the blood. Poisonous is when you eat it it will kill you. So, there is exactly 0 poisonous snakes in the world.

 

[da_donkey]

thanks for clearing that up.......i guess.

 

[AllThingsReptile]

hmm, random
i kinda thought everyone knew that

 

[antaresia_boy]

actually, venom falls under the category of poison quite neatly....so technically all venomous snakes are also poisonous.

–noun
1. a substance with an inherent property that tends to destroy life or impair health.

in general use, a poison is something ingested while venom is something injected, but technically not necessarily true.

 

[Jay84]

Random much???

 

[andrew_p]

so your saying if i drink venom i wont get sick or die

 

[Braidotti]

*** ?

 

[da_donkey]

yep

 

[andrew_p]

nice

 

[blakehose]

I thought venom once injected travelled in the lymphatic system? Not the blood?

 

[cockney red]

Great thread

 

[SomeGuy]

About 136, maybe 142

 

[Elapidae1]

View attachment 175899Oxford dictionary. LOL. This should be made a sticky

 

[wasgij]

this thread = [video=youtube;RBS2bH6tyPU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBS2bH6tyPU[/video]

 

[IgotFrogs]

way i see it dead is dead no matter what you call it

 

[Australis]

this thread-is-spam

 

[whyme]

guess you were bored!

 

[-Peter]

Sucked in, there was a poisonous snake featured in on of the science/nature journals either last year or earlier this year. Like poison arrow frogs of Sth America it is diet related.
Someone else may have a bit more detail.


ps, lol, just noticed your sig Australis. Nice.

 

[Elapidae1]

Sigh, they're all poisonous. LOL

 

[Tristan]

so your saying if i drink venom i wont get sick or die

you can drink venom, and your stomach acid and enzimes will break up the venom and netralise it, but if you have any scratches/cuts/ulcers etc that let the venom get into your blood then you will be in some trouble.

note i dont know if this applies to all venoms but i do know it applies to some