Why is it not poisoned when a poisonous snake eats its own prey? Are they immune to venom?

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.