How can venomous creatures inject venom that can kill or maim most animals, but they aren’t affected by the venom while they’re holding it in their body?
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The snake stores the venom inside a special part of their body, known as a gland, which keeps the venom out of the snake’s blood system and protects them from it. The gland squirts the venom out through the snake’s fangs when it bites an animal, and the venom gets into the animal’s blood system.
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1. The venom only works when it is in the blood. Venomous creatures make and hold venom in special glands and then inject it through special organs such as fangs or stingers; it’s not floating around in their blood.
2. Some organisms make the venom on demand, or as a combination of two chemicals that are harmless when separated.
3. Many organisms that produce a venom also naturally produce the antibodies to counteract it.
Complex living organisms don’t just care about what’s in them but where it is.
Your butt is a great place to store poop until you expel it. If it end up in your blood stream you’ll probably die.
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