sweet fish

nearly identical.........is a different thing right?

monkey's are nearly identical to humans........but I've never had anybody call me a monkney.
 
did you go to atlantis and see it? it's called a Gumdrop goby there and there's a warning about it being venomous.
 
no, close. This guy is

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They're cool but they disappear in the rocks and they're very shy.
I think they live deep inside acropora colonies in the wild.
 
The fish is cool but only gets 2"
Has a temperature range of 74 - 83°F (23 - 28°C). Requires a meaty diet, i.e., enriched brine shrimp, mysis, finely chopped fish or shrimp flesh, and other various frozen carnivore foods, with one or two feedings per day. Likes to hide.
 
The slow loris, a primate, blurs the boundary between poisonous and venomous; it has poison secreting patches on the inside of its elbows which it is believed to smear on its young to prevent them from being eaten. However, it will also lick these patches, giving it a venomous bite.

Learn something new every day.
 
JX,

if it licks the secreted toxin and that makes its bite toxic, I dont think I'd consider that venomous

kind of like a komodo dragon's toxic bite...not venomous, but toxic......now we seem to have a 3rd category

venom should be thought of as something that starts inside a gland inside the animal, like a snake, spider, bee/wasp, etc...I dont think poison mouth would qualify

I would consider the loris to be poisonous as per your explanation

either way, I would still eat one
 
You're right, I have another final tomorrow. notice how I've posted so much? Just trying to procrastinate.
 
Well what it's saying is "it bites you and the toxin is injected into your body"

That's why it says it blurs the boundary I guess.
 
yeah I have two finals today too....Histology and Spinal Anatomy

I'd rather BS about venom and poison than study that stuff right now

at least after today Im done with school for a few weeks

woo hoo......10% doctor
 
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