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The platypus is one of the few living mammals to produce venom. The venom is made in venom glands that are connected to hollow spurs on their hind legs; it is primarily made during the mating season. [1] While the venom's effects are described as extremely painful, it is not lethal to humans.
Platypus – There are a few cases of people being envenomated with platypus venom, including in 1992 and 1994. [154] Possum – A day care centre out on a field trip was attacked by a group of possums in the Oxford Falls suburb of Sydney, 1994. A family was also attacked by one in the Warrnambool suburb of Dennington in 2008. [155]
The rat is known to deliberately chew the roots and bark of the poison-arrow tree (Acokanthera schimperi), so-called because human hunters extract a toxin, ouabain, to coat arrows that can kill an elephant. After the rat has chewed the tree, it deliberately slathers the resulting mixture onto its specialised flank hairs which are adapted to ...
David Eddings sagas: In the Belgariad, the Nyissan people poison each other on a regular basis; some work as professional poisoners. Isaac Asimov : " Obituary ", " Sucker Bait ", " The Winnowing " Jean de Brunhoff : In The Story of Babar , Babar's predecessor as King of the Elephants eats a poisoned mushroom.
The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), [4] sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, [5] is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus is the sole living representative or monotypic taxon of its family Ornithorhynchidae and genus Ornithorhynchus , though a number of related species ...
Zoo officials defended the exhibit, saying the dogs had not been harmed. “Normal people dye their hair,” a spokesperson told Qilu Evening News. “Dogs can dye their hair, too.
In some reports, the infected dogs have died within just a couple of days after developing pneumonia. SEE MORE: Family lives in 'daily dread' after dog dies from mystery illness
It’s the substance that killed the Greek philosopher Socrates and, in 2010, a Tacoma woman. Now a patch of poison hemlock will force the temporary closure of a Lakewood dog park in order to ...