Dry bite
Dry bite refers to a bite from a poisonous animal , often related to a venomous snake or spider , in which the bite victim is not injected with poison .
Dry bites on venomous snakes
On average, every second venomous snake bite is a dry bite, although the frequency varies from species to species. Dry bites may not be immediately recognizable as such. Only when no edema has formed after half an hour can a bite be classified as dry. Dry bites are mostly used to deter the attacker, but to save poison so that it can be used for prey.
To distinguish from the dry bite is the bite of non-toxic snakes, for example coluber which, although pursue the same objective (the attacker to distribute), but may contain naturally no poison. The most reliable sign of bites from non-toxic species is what is known as the bite mark: Non-toxic species leave a semicircular imprint of their teeth, while poisonous snakes leave only one or two puncture points on their poisonous teeth.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Resting - anything other than first aid for snake bites is superfluous. In: Doctors newspaper. March 16, 2007.
- ↑ Leaflet 9 of the German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Science ( Memento from June 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Ulrich Gruber: The snakes of Europe and around the Mediterranean . Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-440-05753-4 .