Is it true that mongoose immune to snake venom?

I've heard of this also. True story: Pigs aren't IMMUNE to poison. You may be thinking of snake venom. It's all about size. If the pig is bitten, the venom won't be fatal because it is sreading over a larger body mass. But, this is not to say that the pig won't be very, very, very sick.

This is NOT true.

no the venom kills the prey and the snake smells the animal and that's how they track them

No. Mainly because the venom yield is much less on an infant snake.

No. The honey badger has a natural immunity to various forms of snake venom that allows it to eat snakes with minor ill effect. This immunity is present because, like mongooses, honey badgers have nicotinic acetylcholine receptors that are slightly different from those of other animals in that they disallow venom to bind to them, which prevents the venom from blocking nerve signals that are sent to the brain. This prevents the stunning effect of specific snake venom that often causes animals to die from the lack of movements necessary to sustain life, such as breathing.

Yes, if they wanted to. But The Rattle Snake Would Die Wouldnt They Because Of The Rattle Not true. The rattle contains no poison and is only used to warn others which therefore wouldn't kill the snakes. Rattlesnakes are also immune to their own poison as well. Rattlesnakes have venom, not poison.

ALL sea snakes are venomous (to use the correct term) They use highly toxic venom to catch fish (their natural diet) The venom has to be fast acting in order to subdue prey quickly.

Antibodies defend us from invaders like bacteria. They seek and destroy toxins and viruses in our blood. Sometimes your body will not have the antibodies it needs to defend itself. Such as a deadly highly venomous snake bite. You will die unless injected with specific antibodies designed to attack the snake venom. Some snake handlers have been bit so many times that venom no longer has an effect on them because their body has learned to produce its own antibodies against the venom. This can also be true for illnesses like the cold or flu.

King Cobra's cannot spit its venom only spitting cobra's can. Like the red Spitting Cobra, King Cobra's are not true cobra's their genus is Ophiophagus which means snake-eater in greek which their main diet is other snakes, true cobras genus is Naja. Spitting cobra's are true cobra's cause there genus is Naja. This answer was improved by murfdog221.

Nagini was a green viper, roughly twelve feet long and as thick as a man's thigh. As a viper, she was known to be venomous, and her venom was used to sustain her master prior to his return to true physical form.

Active immune is nothing but natural immune that is specific or innate immune

According to one herpetologist yes Gopher Snakes like their cousin the Kingsnake are relatively immune from the poison of the Rattlesnake and can and do eat Rattlesnakes

After many experiments, his true from is a giant white snake composed of many small snake if you check the fight between Sasuke and him where he shows his true from. So he has snake eyes.

there voth the deadly with 90000 gigs of poison in them... so ur a loser!

Catfish do not have venomous barbs.

They both will die its impossible for them to "battle". Not true. It would depend on the size of the snake, the type of snake, and the size of the crocodilian. I have no idea how susceptible crocodilians might be to snake venom, but the South American Anaconda routinely feeds on the river caiman, a common Central and South American crocodilian. Five and six-foot specimens of those river crocs have been seen on many occasions wrapped in the coils of large anacondas.

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no i think it's just the same but for sure adults inject much more venom. ummm NO That's not true!! Baby rattle snake are not more venomous because they are both rattlers, How ever the adult has learned to control its venom and believe it or not these snakes are a good judge of size and inject there venom pretty well based on that, but when it comes down to it I would rather be bit by an adult because the baby rattlers have NOT yet learned to control there venom and inject up to 3 times the amount that an adult would so This in turn makes the smaller baby snake much more dangerous.. by Tawni R.

It improves your immune system.

a mr. water moccasin it is about 3 to 6 in size and has alot of venom. EDIT: well this depends on where you are talking about, in the US or in the world? In the U.S.- well then yes the above statement holds true, minus its size. Agkistrodon piscivoru, or the water moccasin is the most venomous snake in the US. Most adults grow to about 32 inches, some may grow up to 71inches. Females are smaller then the males. Moccasins produce a hemotoxic venom and it is rich with tissue-destructive enzymes. In the world- that would belong to the belcher's sea snake or the beaded sea snake. It is also arguably the worlds most venomous snake. Some herpetologist would say either the beaked sea snake(enhydrina schistosa) or the fierce snake aka the inland taipan (oxyuranus microlepidotus).

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the aboriginal rainbow snake is true. it lived with the aboriginal people in australia. the snake lived in the desert part of australia

yes because of the venom

First, no snake is poisonous. Snakes create and utilize venom. Poison is an incidental toxic substance that affects the subject when introduced to the body, generally through the skin or gut. Venom is an intentional protein (in all snakes this holds true but there are a few creatures that must be duck billed platypuses about this) created in a gland for a specific purpose. This purpose is generally hunting or active defense. Rarely is venom utilized in passive defense. This is due to the intentional nature of venom as opposed to the incidental nature of poison. Large constrictor species can cause serious life threatening injuries on a dog of any size. However, when a snake and dog interact my first fear is for the snake. The dog will naturally pick up the snake and shake it violently. The snake will then attempt to wrap around the dog. The ending is then decided when the snake either successfully chokes the dog or the dog has paralyzed the snake (they usually will not die right away). If it has come to the point that you could not prevent the snake from being paralyzed beheading with a sharp edge (i.e. shovel, machete) is the preferred and most compassionate way to cease its life. So, in a nutshell yes. Both the snake and the dog pose a very real threat to each other. I personally feel more sympathy for the snake because the dog acts as a pack animal. Meaning the pack leader, (you) has allowed this to occur. When in a pack the group of animals (you are included and have the ability to reason) becomes an abstract entity with "malicious" intent.

Bill Haast is a guy who became interested in snakes as a child and spend almost his whole life collecting them. he opened his "serpentarium" in rural s. Florida where people could come to see his snakes and for extra admission you could watch him milk a snakes venom. he made a fortune selling snake venom to pharma companies and drove around in a cherry red rolls Royce. The mythos of Bill Haast is quite different than the actual man. Though widely known as one of the worlds experts on poisonous snakes he never advanced beyond the 6th grade. This isn't to say that he lacks experience as he's proven that time and again. One myth has to do with the alleged years of "research" on venom. The sad but true fact is that he's never been published, and his findings never made public. The "work" he's done through various universities was nothing more than selling the venom to the school. In defense of his "research" he has conducted, Mr. Haast revealed he was curious about the effects of venoms on small animals though there is no record of his findings. Bill Haast also practiced mithridatism, the process of desensitation to chemicals by ingesting a small dose and gradually increasing the dose. By doing this he made himself immune to most snake venom which is pretty cool if you ask me. He gave blood transfusion on many occasions to people who had suffered snake bites. Besides having his hands ravaged over the years by certain snake bites that dissolve tissue and nerves he never suffered from disease or illness which he attributes to the snake venom he injected himself with. Is his good health because of snake venom? I dunno, sounds fishy to me. Can anyone else shed some light on this subject?