eli5: Why do some tiny animals contain enough venom to kill thousands of humans, isn’t that just overkill?
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A lot of time it’s just coincidence. A cacao tree contains enough chocolate to kill thousands of dogs, which is completely overkill considering that dogs are not a food source or predator. The venom they produce is intended to scare off predators or to kill their food sources, it just happens that humans are really sensitive to it.
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