Re: Defensive Snake Venom? A survey of pain in snakebite pat
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 5:30 pm
Ruggero Morimando wrote:P.s. And what about the aposematic colours of coral snakes? Painful bites...? I don't think they are immediately painful, but the aposematic colours are a signal of defence... or what else?
Well, the proposed study is aimed at the reports (of humans, of course) of immediately painful bites by venomous snakes,
the pain being caused by envenomation, and presumably to drive the predator away (before it kills the snake.) That's why
I asked about the sense of the project as such, with a key proposition like that. My question is so terribly simple...