Posted on 10/24/2023 9:42:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden employee was hospitalized Thursday after she was bitten by a highly venomous rattlesnake.
The eastern diamondback rattlesnake snapped at the employee around 4 p.m. in a “behind the scenes area” not open to guests, the zoo’s communications director Michelle Curley told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The unnamed staffer — who works in the reptile house — was taken to the hospital in stable condition. She had only received a partial bite and did not require antivenom, Curley said, adding her prognosis is good.
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In the ER we found that most snake bite cases involved ALCOHOL in some way.
Hold my beer....
Shot a timber rattlesnake this summer off the side of the driveway. Son in law spotted while we were sitting on the deck. We gutted it, tanned the hide and the hide is in a glass framed case on the deck... Good conversation piece.
He say you die, Kimosabe.
Did they shoot the snake?
Like the ape?
Absolutely correct. The Mojave Green is the most poisonous. They are one of the only two I think in the world that has a unique “dual” venom.
“The Mojave Green Rattlesnake’s venom can be either hemotoxic (toxins that attack the blood) or neurotoxic (toxins that target the nervous system) making treatment challenging.”
https://www.ndow.org/species/mojave-green-rattlesnake/
Our family used to own a ranch in the Mojave. I have lost 2 horses to Mojave Green bites. They were gone in less than 20 minutes. It shut down their respiratory system and they suffocated. Figure an estimated 10 minutes for a human.
Fortunately they tend to be fairly docile. You really have to step on them or make them pretty mad before they will strike. They try to get away as best they can first.
That's well known in West Texas. Apparently a lot of the bites appear in the fork of the right hand caused by the drunken idiot prodding the snake with too short of a stick.
Here is one for you, they are so bad and disliked that even the environmentalists have not put them on the endangered species list. They sure were endangered when they came in our yard though. lol
My dad killed an Eastern Diamondback in the 70s, it measured 75” long. This was in NW FL up in the sandhills.
Fortunately, we were a long way from it and heard it rattling.
I saw it again while riding my bicycle in the same area. I came within about 20 feet of it and got a good look.
It's a monster.
That being said, its like arguing if is better to be hit by a train, 18 wheeler, or race car at high speeds.
Almost 1/3 of venemous snake bites are "dry bites" or warnings. Venom takes ALOT of metabolism to make so they save it as that is their primary hunting/digestion tool. It too precious to waste.
A VAST majority of major envenomation are people that are drunk messing with snakes. Piss them off enough and you're going to get a "hot shot" or "full load".
The next largest segment of envenomizations are landscapers/yardscapers/loggers who step on/ride over and injure snakes.
Sounds like a dry bite.
Cincinatti Zoo.
Sorry, I don’t believe animals should be confined in a cage and gawked at by people.
I agree. And when the animals are loose people approach them and get gored, mauled or bitten. Maybe the people ought to be in cages and the animals can visit them.
Wow. Did not realize that. Usually with rattlers you hear all that about what a beautiful animal they are etc.
Yep, everything else in our desert is protected, even insects. But the last time I checked they were still not on the endangered species list.
And they really are not endangered, they are like an invasive species and pushing all the other endangered species out.
I’m in favor of free animals too. Heartbreaking to see them in cages.
I won’t even go to local Petco because they sell lizards and goldfish. Lizards are adorable, had one outside my house in Florida who apparently liked me. Friend said he was flirting,
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