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Originally Posted by Steven@HumboldtHerps
The "baby rattlesnakes are more dangerous then the adults" myth often permeates through the realm of snakebite stories, however is somewhat of a fallacy. The only truth to it is that in many cases the babies do not know when to withhold venom in a defensive bite.
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I learned pretty recently, that that's also a fallacy.
Apparently the babies know very well how to withhold venom (whether or not they do, is a different story) and the myth that the babies would be more dangerous, turns out to be true in some instances. Babies of at least some species of venomous snake can in fact have a more potent venom than the adults. What I knew from before, was that the venoms change in composition as the snake grows, but I didn't think that this myth, which had already been debunked once, would turn out to be true. But I don't know if it's true for rattlers.
James is going to declare this nonsense for sure.
