Holy Crap! This Poisonous Primate Thinks It's a Cobra!
I didn't even know this existed, but apparently the Slow Loris from Southern Asia is poisonous! And if that isn't crazy enough, it hisses and has markings that resembles a cobra!
Slow lorises are found mainly in South and Southeast Asia. They create their venom by first licking a gland on the inside of their elbows, which probably makes them one of the few primates who can lick their own elbows (I’ll bet you’re trying it right now). The secretion is mixed with saliva and injected into a victim with a bite by a tooth comb, a set of incisors in the lower jaw whose main purpose is grooming. The venomous bite is extremely painful to humans and can cause scarring and potential death from anaphylactic shock.
When threatened, lorises will hiss, squirm like a snake and put their arms over their heads in a posture that looks like spectacled cobra in strike position. According to a paper published in the Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases (the scariest publication name ever), this is an evolutionary development.
Slow loris expert Anna Nekaris, the director of Oxford Brookes University’s Little Fireface Project, says in the report that that the cobras and slow lorises lived in the same area eight million years ago. As the rain forests disappeared due to climate changes, the lorises were forced out into the open and onto the ground, where it appears they developed the snake impression to survive.
For the full article, click here.
Wait, what?
ReplyDeleteWhere`s Joe`s new "foreskin n` helmet" avatar ?
DeleteHere`s a story you might like to READ .
DeleteBigfoot trouble: Mid-tarsal break NOT indicative of Bigfoot anymore
Scientists have discovered that about one in thirteen people have flexible ape-like feet.
A team studied the feet of 398 visitors to the Boston Museum of Science.
The results show differences in foot bone structure similar to those seen in fossils of a member of the human lineage from two million years ago.
Jeremy DeSilva from Boston University and a colleague asked the museum visitors to walk barefoot and observed how they walked by using a mechanised carpet that was able to analyse several components of the foot.
And what he found showed that a significant number of humans have this trait. Very curious. But this puts Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, Idaho State University professor and Bigfoot expert, in an interesting position. He has stated, and published that Sasquatch/Bigfoot prints frequently show a mid-tarsal break and this is indicative of the prints NOT being human:
http://doubtfulnews.com/2013/06/bigfoot-trouble-mid-tarsal-break-not-indicative-of-bigfoot-anymore/
I guess Jeff Meldrum is about to experience "meltdown" any time soon....
Deletehis whole career is virtually built on the mid-tarsal break and now his "bigfoot" theory is crashing down in ruins.
Shame as it was the piece of "evidence" footers based their life around.
Damning NEWS
Deletehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22728014
I can lick my elbows because of my serpent tongue!
ReplyDeleteBut, can you lick your anus?
DeleteNo but you can lick mine instead if you want to.
DeletePlease anybody! say something childish and stupid! I haven't read anything childish or stupid here in years. Why are you all sooooo serious about Big foots/ Please say stupid things like it's a Bear, or a Guy in a Monkey suit!
ReplyDeleteI'm Bored, forgive me. Tomorrow I'll go Bigfooting in my Town's park, to see what all the fuss is about.
Your a poopy fart head
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Not even I can find a way to stop the storm
Oh, baby, it's out of my control, what's going on?
But you're just a chance I take to keep on dreaming
You're just another day that keeps me breathing
Baby, I love the way that there's nothing sure
Baby, don't stop me, hide away with me some more
Ooh, aah, aah, ooh, ooh, aah, aah, ooh, ooh, aah, aah, ooh, ooh, aah, aah, ooh
MMG
^ is that some kind of orgasm ?
Deleteno childish words. we are serious researchers. harvey the rabbit told me so.. he said there is a chicken in every pot and a bigfoot in every backyard. seriously
ReplyDeletekeep your eye out for joe`s new foreskin and helmet avatar
DeleteOnly someone that thinks leaves and stumps are sasquatches would think slow loris' look anything like a cobra.
ReplyDeleteFerocious in a comical way; like a dog defending it's vomit, or Joe defending the PGF.
ReplyDeleteNever forget Sept. 19, 2014, the day of your flunkiest flunkout, fooled like a monkey trying to gobble plastic bananas, by an April Fool's Day joke, six years old, 2008.
DeletePackham's "recreate, to the inch, the action at Bluff Creek" = "no attempt to recreate the PGF", derp . . . derp . . . derp . . . derp . . . derp . . . derp . . . derp
Deluded fish in a leaky barrel.
Too easy.
Paid-up acolyte of a cult of the deluded commandeered by an illusionist.
Apt.
Keep choking on that plastic banana.
^ but a "dick" is much more fun
DeleteMom said I can't go to the Oklahoma Bigfoot Asylum.
ReplyDelete^ aww didn`t you finish your fishfingers and chips ?
DeleteThis explains why some bigfoot prints don't have a break --They have the same trait as we do--but the variance is different--
ReplyDelete"Crashing down around him"--let me guess you spend all your time trolling and getting over excited about nothing
^ why yes that`s right....I`ve joined the club of people spend all their time excited over nothng on here...lemme say it ag`in for yeez....excited `bout nuthin` but gator legs ,shadows and blurry pics of dark spots,buddy...NUTHIN`.
Delete^^ 9:26 "This explains why some bigfoot prints don't have a break"
DeleteOh really ?
an "explanation" ?
How convenient for all you bleevers
surely its venomous. plants /mushrooms etc..are poisonous, but I could be wrong
ReplyDeleteRaises the question of how credible people who consider themselves experts actually are. One could question that if a primate could carry a gene that is found in reptiles like the cobra what's to stop them from carrying a gene that gives them the ability to change color in winter like a rabbit, change color on demand like a chameleon and conveniently change stance from bipedal to quadruped swiftly.
ReplyDeleteThere will always be someone to call such a notion ridiculous, but it could be a closer to truth explanation to what makes Bigfoot so elusive than paranormal abilities.