Why are venomous snakes poisonous? How is the prey digested alive under its mouth?

More than 10 percent of the more than 3,000 species of snakes are venomous, and only 10 to 15 percent of these 10 percent are poisonous and pose a fatal danger to humans.

The medicinal value of poisonous snakes is still very high, containing a large amount of protein, amino acids required by the human body, various trace elements, etc., some traditional medicines have snake ingredients, which have the effect of relaxing muscles and invigorating blood, dispelling rheumatism and dispersing cold, but not all snakes have this effect.

Snakes do not swallow food with their teeth, although they also have sharp teeth, but their teeth are used to bite the prey, and then inject venom through the teeth into the prey, causing the prey to faint or die.

The venom of poisonous snakes is their most powerful**, if it is an ordinary snake without poison, their teeth are not poisonous, they can only use their bodies to entangle their prey, twisting their bodies so hard that the prey cannot breathe until they die.

Whether it is a venomous snake or a regular snake, they do not use their teeth to tear and chew food, but swallow it directly, so snakes have a very strong digestive system. Some snakes can even turn on their digestive system while devouring their prey, and then spit out the digested bones again.

In addition to having a strong digestive system, snakes crawl mainly on their abdomen, which is digested by the friction between their abdomen and the ground. The venom in the body of venomous snakes is not only their **, but also their digestive juices, and some large snakes use venom to digest prey, similar to the bile in our body.

Snakes eat a very large amount of food, they can eat several times larger prey than themselves in one meal, usually, poisonous snakes will first poison the prey, and then swallow it directly, the snake's jaw can be adjusted in size, according to the size of the food, when encountering large prey, the snake's jaw will be thin and wide, and then wrap the food to swallow.

The speed at which a snake swallows food depends on the size of its prey, taking about five minutes for a mouse and ten minutes for a larger bird or pheasant. They basically all start from the head to swallow, while birds or winged prey, snakes start from the top of the bird's head so that the bird's mouth does not puncture the snake's esophagus.

The venom of snakes can be made into medicine, and the prey is already digested when the venom is sprayed, and in the mouth it is actually a second digestion.

The reason why it is used in medicine is that it can fight poison with poison. It's because he secretes some gastric juice in his mouth. These gastric juices break down food.

If a poisonous snake attacks a person, it is likely to be poisoned, but many Chinese medicine practitioners can also use poisonous snakes to make medicine when dispensing medicines, but they must be combined with other medicines.

All of us must have had our own experiences of biting our tongue or lips, often with a shivering pain. It suddenly occurred to me that if I bit my mouth or tongue by poisoning, would I be poisoned by my own venom? It's a strange idea, because poisonous snakes don't bite themselves, let alone inject venom into their bodies.

We learned in junior high school that poisonous snakes are all through fangs.

Squirt out your own venom or inject venom into your prey through a hole in your fangs while biting your prey. The snake's tongue is often called the snake letter, its swallowing and spitting are actually in a fixed groove, and the snake's mouth has such a small groove that is specially used to swallow the snake letter, and it will definitely not be bitten.

Even if something very strange happened and a stupid snake bit its own tongue, I am sure it would not have injected the venom into it. You know, no one bites their tongue and doesn't let go and continues to work hard, that's ridiculous.

And when poisonous snakes catch their prey, usually the prey is poisoned by their venom, so why don't they poison after eating these prey with venom? In fact, it is necessary to understand what this poison is.

The main component of snake venom is in fact the well-known protein, which, like the protein of ordinary food, can basically be broken down into amino acids in the stomach.

In other words, eating venom is not the same thing as poisoning, of course, if you eat too much snake venom, there will definitely be problems. However, if the snake venom does not pass through the decomposition of the stomach and directly reaches the various organs, it will still cause serious consequences.

In this case, of course, the viper will not be poisoned by the venom of its own prey. Of course, eating the prey that has been poisoned by oneself is safe and sound does not mean that poisonous snakes are not afraid of poison. There was once a venomous snake that bit its tail in the laboratory, and then the wound began to swell and worsen, although it was not as bad as other species after being poisoned, but it was still operated on to save its life.

Therefore, poisonous snakes are just not afraid of eating their own venom, not completely immune to venom, summer is coming, friends must pay attention to snakes when they go out, don't be bitten.

Because venomous snakes have detoxifying substances in their bodies, they are able to break down their own venom and are indeed immune to venom.

There are three main reasons, first of all, snakes have a certain immunity to their own venom, secondly, most snake venom has to contact with blood to have a toxic effect, and finally the bile secreted by snakes digesting food can be detoxified.

Yes. They are immune to their own venom. Although the prey killed by ** carries its venom, it does not affect its eating.

Since they were poisoned with their own venom, it means that there is something in their body that can immune and digest this venom. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many snakes still alive.

Generally, when a venomous snake attacks its prey or a person, it basically injects venom at the moment of bite, and then immediately releases it.

Because in the wild environment poisonous snakes catch prey, the most important thing is their venom, and like five-step snakes, cobras and highly venomous snakes, when catching mice or other things, they generally inject venom into their bodies, and they only need to wait for half an hour, and then look for the taste of the prey, you can find the prey that has been poisoned by yourself. Therefore, for the reader, even if they bite, they will be like prey, and they will generally loosen their mouths immediately after injecting venom, and they will not bite like a mad dog as the subject says.

However, in nature, some snakes will bite the prey directly, and then wrap their bodies around the prey, just like non-venomous snakes such as pythons, once they bite the prey, they will use their strong body to roll up the prey until the prey suffocates and dies before swallowing it directly.

However, whether the poisonous snake will bite the prey and let go directly depends on what environment, if the poisonous snake is catching birds in the tree, then they must bite the prey and hold on, otherwise the venom will fly away if it does not work so quickly. Therefore, in this case, the poisonous tongue must eat, bite the prey, and their fangs will indeed inject venom into the prey when they are stressed.

Generally, injecting venom into their bodies is possible, and it only takes half an hour to wait.

The venom of a poisonous snake does not enter the bloodstream when it is put in the mouth, so it will not be poisoned.

As long as it doesn't get into the bloodstream, there will be no problem.

It's because he's not afraid of right, right.

Because there is no connection to blood in the mouth.

This is because the venom is not in the blood vessels.

Venom can only poison a person if it is in the blood.

This is because it is resistable.

It's because he can resist it himself.

Generally, poisonous animals have a certain immunity to their own poison. The teeth of the viper are connected to the venom glands and are hollow, in the same way as a syringe. Venom accumulates in venom glands and is squeezed out only when used, and snake venom is only lethal when it enters the bloodstream, and poisonous snakes are harmless when ingested while hunting.

There are two kinds of snake venom, nerve snake venom and blood snake venom, which act on nerves and blood respectively Snakes have exempt substances in their blood that resist their own venom, and the antivenom of snake bites is a similar substance. Snake venom is toxic only when it enters the bloodstream and mostly works by destroying lytic blood cells and affecting nerve conduction. Snakes secrete venom, which is only stored in the body, even if we take snake venom orally, as long as there is no ulcer wound on the stomach, the snake venom will not enter the bloodstream, and it will be decomposed as an ordinary protein under the action of gastric acid, and it will naturally not be poisoned.