Why some animals can eat poison and cheat death

AFRICA: CREATURES consuming species that contain deadly toxins have evolved a suite of clever strategies to stay alive. The 10 snakes faced a tough predicament. Collected from the Colombian Amazon, they had been without food for several days in captivity and then were presented with extremely unappetising prey: threestriped poison dart frogs, Ameerega trivittata. The … The post Why some animals can eat poison and cheat death first appeared on Daily News .