2006-10-14 20:36:31 · 4 answers · asked by jagadeesh_repalli 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
If a snake bites who? I have been snake-bit quite a few times and I think I am still alive (i no die) Snakes bite each other and unless one is extremely larger than the other they don't die. Venomous snakes have poison and fangs that inject the venom into their victims. Most people who get bit by venomous snakes don't die , even if they don't get medical treatment.King snakes are so named because they eat rattlesnakes , and a mongoose will eat even deadlier snakes such as the King cobra , but they are NOT immune to its venom , only quicker and have better sight and hearing . Most venomous snakes can control the amount of venom they inject (they only have what is held in their venom duct/gland ) so they only use what they think they need to do the job...like a little bit for a mouse a little bit more for a rabbit and so on. Sometimes they don't use any at all. All snakes have teeth all snakes can bite...and they all swim and they all can constrict their prey.
2006-10-14 20:58:42 · answer #1 · answered by budlowsbro420 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Immunity
Among snakes
The question whether all snakes are immune to their own venom is not yet definitely settled. Most snakes certainly are, and it is a remarkable fact that certain harmless species, such as the North American Coronella getula and the Brazilian Rhacidelus brazili, are proof against the venom of the Crotalines which frequent the same districts, and which they are able to overpower and feed upon. The Cribo, Spilotes variabilis, is the enemy of the Fer-de-lance in St. Lucia, and it is said that in their encounters the Cribo is invariably the victor. Repeated experiments have shown our Common Snake, Tropidonotus natrix, not to be affected by the bite of Vipera berus and Vipera aspis, this being due to the presence, in the blood of the harmless snake, of toxic principles secreted by the parotid and labial glands, and analogous to those of the venom of these vipers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_venom#Among_snakes
2006-10-18 00:03:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably because the poison is already in the snake's system. It's immune to it.
2006-10-14 20:38:51 · answer #3 · answered by city_savvy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
brotherhood ... there is love in its sting that nullify the poison ,,,
2006-10-14 20:46:36 · answer #4 · answered by r.banga 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋