Guyyyyss, I've been watching Orange is the New Black, so I decided to sneak peek at Blood sisters. Tell me why I was expecting something else at some point ππ
Let me answer the few questions I got on this
1. Am I releasing it to the wild? Definitely no. This one will be eaten
2. Am I going to eat it? Definitely no! I don't eat bushmeat. I'll give it out.
3. If I'm a wildlife preservation evangelist, why aren't we protecting this rat? I have never preached for rodents to be protected. You'll even hear me tell you to get rid of them whenever I'm lecturing on how to prevent snakes from coming to your house. They're destructive and many. Their population isn't threatened in any way. It's like saying you want to protect termites. You see how that sounds?
What determines whether an animal is protected or not is their number, birth rate and ecological role.
Thank you.
Black stones don't work against snake bites. People think it works because they think all snakes are venomous.
So, let's say a brown house snake, a spotted bush snake, a ball python or a rock python, bites someone in Nigeria, they'll start shouting "If you see how big the snake that bit him was." The discussion won't be about whether the snake is venomous or not, as the majority don't even care to learn. So, they'll think the black stone or whatever ineffective medicine they used works, not knowing that there wasn't envenomation in the first case.
Of the ~4,000 species of snakes in the world, only 600 (15%) are venomous and only 200 (5%) are venomous enough to kill a human in a single bite.
I've read different papers where people tested black stones in Nigeria, Asia and Latin America. It didn't work in any of those studies. Even the WHO had to put a disclaimer against it.
Bottom line, black stones don't work.