I avoid any animal that sounds like it should have a Monster Manual entry. I’m looking at you… “Pangolin”.
NitricAcidsays
I actually only came across the word in Harry Potter, so it never occurred to me that it was a real beast. But it so obviously derives from Dutch “tree snake” that I’m kicking myself for not realizing it before.
numerobissays
So, supportive care wouldn’t keep you alive through this?
via Stuff NZA 17-month-old Brazilian boy fatally bit a killer snake after it approached him while he was playing in the back garden of his home.
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The dead snake was identified as the jararaca pit viper – it’s bite can cause brain haemorrhage, kidney failure and fatal shock.
“He bit the young jararaca close to its head, which immobilised it and prevented it from biting him,” Gilmar Carteri, a doctor at the hospital, told G1 news.
jockmcdocksays
Me and my friends used to catch and handle brown snakes in Whyalla, South Australia during my early teens.
That was poignant. Two months before I was born, so I had no idea.
Youngster. I was 7 months old, but I was focused on matters other than herpetology.
And the crazy thing is, Boomslangs aren’t even considered to be amongst the world’s nasty snakes.
I avoid any animal that sounds like it should have a Monster Manual entry. I’m looking at you… “Pangolin”.
I actually only came across the word in Harry Potter, so it never occurred to me that it was a real beast. But it so obviously derives from Dutch “tree snake” that I’m kicking myself for not realizing it before.
So, supportive care wouldn’t keep you alive through this?
numerobis @ 6:
A total blood transfusion might keep you alive if you can’t get antivenom right away.
On the other hand there is a snake – bite death Brazilian toddler bites a deadly snake to death in his own back yard
Me and my friends used to catch and handle brown snakes in Whyalla, South Australia during my early teens.
We didn’t think it was a big deal.
God, we were young and stupid.