::How could it? Venomous animals must be immune to their own species's venom, right? How else could their bodies produce it? [[User:Brian Schlosser42|Brian Schlosser42]] 19:54, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
:::Not necessarilly. The poison they produce is kept in special poison gland, not in their blood. For example, the hydrocholric acid we produce in outour stomaches is quite poisonous to many types of bacteria, and would be so to us, if it were injected into our bloodstream with fangs. However, in a properly functioning stomache, with a nice mucus lining, it's not a problem. This said, many species will have at least a partial immunity to their own poison, as battles with other snakes of their own species are common, and such immunity would therefore be adventagous. If they eat prey which they have injected with their own poison, they will also ingest some that way, although it will be far more dilute by the time it has spread throughout the victim's body. Some types of poisons, like nuerotoxins, can more easily be defended against, say by blocking the nuerorecptors for that toxin, than others, like strong organic acids. [[User:StuRat|StuRat]] 21:03, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
