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Why dont poisonous animals poison themselves? - Rebecca D. Tarvin

Why dont poisonous animals poison themselves? - Rebecca D. Tarvin

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Have you checked out our Patreon page? Thousands of animal species use toxic chemicals to defend themselves from predators. Snakes have blood clotting compounds in their fangs, the bombardier beetle has corrosive liquid in its abdomen and jellyfish have venomous, harpoon-like structures in their tentacles. But how do these animals survive their own poisons? Rebecca D. Tarvin details the strategies that protect animals from themselves. Lesson by Rebecca D. Tarvin
Date: 2020-08-22

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Darwin: Oh, cool! Two beetles! I'll grab them for my collection and Oh, a third beetle! But I don't have anywhere to put it oh I know! I'll put this bug that I have no knowledge of in my mouth! That seems like a brilliant idea!
Someone was clearly lacking a few brain cells at this stage in his life.

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Out of the three hundred pockets, nooks and crannies, and an entire storage chest he had on his Victorian outfit, he chose to store an insect inside his mouth. Darwin almost got a Darwin Award himself.
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Frankly, I never thought about that. In spite of that I often thought what makes a poison a poison. How do they kill?
I took their resistance to their poison granted.

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Might as well ask myself why my antibodies dont attack my own healthy cells. Or why my immune system doesnt attack my organs.
Oh wait.

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I'm curious. Does the poisoner have the cure?
Can the snakes who have resistance be used in some make shift remedy to cure its poison?

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Because so far Humanity is the one truly nonsensical entity in nature. I doubt reality could tolerate more than one species being that way.
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Kind of like the excretion we store in our body.
The filth is in it's own chamber and it leaves the body without harming it.

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So what did you learn? Me: Charles Darwin was actually a madman who stashed random beatles in his mouth
This is a joke
Kinda

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Its funny to me how Darwin could put a beetle in his mouth while today we cant even go out in nature bc we are binging Netflix.
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