Japanese grass snake 'borrows' poison from toxic toads: study

Japanese grass snake 'borrows' poison from toxic toads: study

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese grass snake does not produce the toxic fluid it shoots out from glands near the neck, but it stores the poison found in its prey, such as toxic toads, according to a team of researchers from Kyoto University and Old Dominion University in Virginia. Photos provided by Akira Mori, an assistant professor at Kyoto University, show a grass snake (top) and a toxic toad (bottom). (Kyodo)

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