Re: "Study shows more to a lizard bite than a nasty nip"

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

> Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051116/sc_nm/science_venom_dc

> "Milking the big monitors was quite simple,


Heh.  Right.


> just gently squeezing 
> the glands 
> would result in 40-50 milligrams (dry weight) of liquid venom 
> pooling at the 
> base of the teeth," Fry said.
> This means a big Komodo dragon
> could have more than 200 milligrams
> ready to delivery at any time, he said.


Acknowledgements:  We wish to thank our graduate students for doing the
field work and the sample collection:  The late Adam Jackson, the late
Christine McFarly and the late Joshua Jones.  They will live in our
memories forever.   Ray ("Three-fingers") Johnson administered the
anesthesia to the Komodos.

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