Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Venom Collection

The men make this look so easy...handling poisonous snakes is a very old tradition for this tribe of people. They collect the venom using a small jar and put the snake back in it's clay pot all in about 5 minutes. They cut off a scale from the snake to include with each sample to identify the venom so it can be used to create an anti-venom somewhere else.

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