why few animal donot die though bitten by poisonous snake whereas humanbeing die immediately?

Question

snakebite

Answer 1

Human beings don't die immediately. Animals that survive are the ..
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There are no such animals. A mongoose dies almost 9 to 10 days after the snake has bitten it. It is the longest time any creature survives with a snake bite.

Answer 2

Toxic immunity towards a given venom of a snake ... some animals carry antibodies that can easily counter the venomous bite of deadly snakes while other animals have no defense once the toxin (whether it be neurotoxin, myotoxin, or erythrotoxin) enters the body. As for humans, we are amongst the unlucky ones that do not have a natural defense ... unless you count receiving an anti-venom treatment immediately or being one of the few people who have been bitten so many times that they have a natural defense against those venoms.

And many venomous snakes cannot kill humans immediately. The effects of the venom and the time taken for the venom to run its course is dependent on the amount of snake venom injected and how large the person bitten is. Snake bites from smaller, younger snakes tend to be more dangerous since those snakes are still using more than enough venom to take down their prey while older snakes that produce the same amount of venom use a little less, but still enough to kill its prey and move on.

Answer 3

I would like to start by saying there is no such thing as a poisonous snake (poisonous is bad if you bite it, venomous is bad if it bites you). Just a technicality but something to know, and helpful in this question.

The whole point of venom is to kill prey species, namely animals. They bite it, it scurries away without much of a fight, and then dies, allowing the snake to risk very little in its attempt to eat. A secondary function of venom is defense (though interestingly not against its own species...).

So that being said, the reason it may seem like some animals live after being bitten is the length of time involved in the animal dieing. It appears to scurry off unharmed (save for puncture wounds), however, I assure you, it dies.

There are some exceptions, as there are "arms races" in all preditor/prey relations. Some animals have developed a growing immunity to venom. This is matched with the further changing of venom components in the snake populations (rattlers have been shown to be shifting from hemotoxic to neurotoxic, possibly as a result of this). Its simply the luck of a mutation in the prey to prevent some aspect of the venom from working.

Another interesting aspect of this situation is that in defence, snakes have "dry" bites up to 25-50% of the time, meaning there is no venom. Venom is expensive to the snake to make, so it will ration it out. This causes many people being bit to not react (breeding all kinds of "home remedies" for snake bites).

One last point is that the snakes that are HIGHLY toxic and bite people are not usually the ones that are common in populated areas. Therefore the unfortunate individuals being bit are far from medical attention. These are the news stories that people hear and think is normal. Most often you can be bit by venomous animals and get to medical aide before you are screwed.

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Did you know that if you give aspirin to a cat it will become very sick.

Did you know the penicilin would never have been discovered if they did animal testing, because the animals they would have used would have died from the penicilin.

The reason is that different chemicals affect different animals differently. So what may be toxic to a human, may not affect another animal.

Snake bites usually affect most animals. The exception being the mongoose. This is because it puffs up its skin when fighting a snake so that the snake poison doesn't go into the blood.

Answer 5

Humans do not die immediately from a snakebite unless they are bitten in a vein. In that case, the venom effects the heart muscle causing a heart attack. Otherwise, it's a slow, often painful death taking hours or even days - assuming they die at all. Fact is, more people die in this country from bee stings than snakebites every year.

Answer 6

I would think how deadly the venom is depends on how long they have to get to a hospital before they die. Also, just because someone gets bit doesn't mean they will die, they may just get sick. Body weight depends also. I haven't heard of animals having an easier time with snake bites. Maybe cattle or elephants? I would imagine that in the animal kingdom the poisonous snakes venom wasn't made to kill only humans.

Answer 7

In principle, snake venoms act in three 'different' ways:


haemotoxins, ie venoms that split (haemolyse) the red blood cells, or affect the ability of the blood to clot (coagulate).


neurotoxins, ie venoms that in particular paralyse nerve transmission to the muscles and in the worst case paralyse the muscles involved in swallowing and breathing.


cardiotoxins, ie venoms that have a direct harmful action on the heart and lead to circulatory failure and shock.


a number of other factors, including possible allergic reactions, are also involved in poisoning,

out of 3000 species of snakes only 15% are venomous.

snake-bite does not cause instant death.It takes any time from15 minutes to a few hours for the reactions to take place.

it is more often the ' fear factor ' caused by the bite which hastens death.
some times death can be due to bacterial infection, due to the bite or using rusted knife to make an incision.
the antivenom prepared from horses may cause allergic reaction in some people.
the human beings are more species specific for the toxic effect of snake venoms.like they are for some of the diseases which are spread by vectors -like the bubonic plague ( rats are not affected ) or malarial plasmodium
( female anopheles mosquitoes are immune to malaria.).

some domestic animals like cows ' dogs' cats also die of snake bite.

Answer 8

Well. This is known as the Immunity towards a toxic substance. you can see that usually, very few snakes die due to the bite of their own kind. Most of them die to straggling to death for food.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

humanbeing die due to heart attack not due to poision