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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•5 months agoUnlikely. You probably will injest the poison and die, and depending on if the poison also acts as a venom they may / may not. It’s probably more accurate to say "Venoms are injected. Poisons are injested. "
minus-square@cmhelinkEnglish9•edit-25 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatism But I also suspect that there are poisons which are deadly when injected and more mildly toxic when ingested. But I am not a chemist.
minus-square@AnticorplinkEnglish1•5 months agoThe poison from those frogs is deadly when injected. The natives use it to tip their darts and arrows.
Unlikely. You probably will injest the poison and die, and depending on if the poison also acts as a venom they may / may not.
It’s probably more accurate to say "Venoms are injected. Poisons are injested. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridatism
But I also suspect that there are poisons which are deadly when injected and more mildly toxic when ingested. But I am not a chemist.
The poison from those frogs is deadly when injected. The natives use it to tip their darts and arrows.