Meet maned rat, the only poisonous rodent species known to man. It's found in East African countries like Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya.
It doesn't produce the poison by itself. It gets it by chewing the bark and roots of the poison arrow tree (in the second slide). It mixes the plant’s toxic sap with saliva and deliberately licks it onto specialized, sponge-like hairs on its flanks.
The poison from the tree is so strong that traditional hunters were using it to take down large animals like elephants.
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The rock bottom, in fact, is one’s body.
You might as well keep falling till the body makes a ‘thud’.
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