[eli5] Why are snakes not poisoned by their own venom?
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A bit of a false premise as some snakes are not immune to their own venom. It *is* possible that a snake can screw up and both bite and lethally envenomate itself.
But it’s not common obviously, first of all some snakes have immunity to their own venoms, but also as was pointed out, venom must by definition be injected into the flesh of the target. Ingesting the venom is often not a problem and it’s destroyed in the stomach.
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