Venom is a dangerous killer liquid that most amphibians, reptiles, and mollusks has it. But if you think mammals don't produce one, then you're wrong. Few mammals do produce venom both for hunting and defense, and we're listing the one that has the most powerful venom of all mammals so enjoy and watch out for venoms. They kill.
8. SUNDA SLOW LORIS
Sunda Slow Loris is a slow moving, endangered animal that It's so slow, some people says that they are a mix of a primate and a slug. In Malaysia, this Loris called Kera Duku, because the name it's given to it's love of Langsats and Dukus, and in Indonesia, it's called the Kukang, which in the country, it's often confused by either lorises and sloths because in Indonesia, both of them are called Kukang. Not like most lorises, this loris stay in the tree for almost the rest of it's lives. This loris, along with the Pygmy Slow Loris, Javan Slow Loris, Bornean Slow Loris, and the Bengal Slow Loris are one of the few venomous mammals, but for me, the Sunda Slow Loris got the strongest venom of all. When it's threatened by a predator, they will bite and releases it's venomous gland in it's elbow, licking it, then lick its teeth, bite the predator, and roll into a ball (just like armadillos and pangolins) and covering all of it's body with it's venomous gland to prevent more attacks from the predator. Not like the other venomous mammal that you about to see, the Sunda Slow Loris, just like it's name, got the slowest metabolism of all (but maybe the most slothful of all).
7. HISPANIOLAN SOLENODON
The Hispaniolan Solenodon, or Agouta for short, has been live with us when we're still Neanderthals and Cavemens. This Dominic-Haitian endemic animals are extremely endangered, and protected in the northern and southern part of Hispaniola Island, but some stupid Mongooses bring by stupid ships to Hispaniola Island has stupidly eaten most of the population. Cursed you Mongooses! Especially the one that almost attack me in my balcony at that night. Just like other Solenodons, the Hispaniolan Solenodon has a venom-filled saliva that will make a serious pain in the bitten spot. Although it is abundant around thousands years ago in the whole North America, even in the today's range of this animal, they're still really hard to find, and if you easily find this animal in the Northern or Southern Hispaniola range, you are 1 of the whole population of India and China combined that can easily found this animal in the wild, and why am I talking about the population but NOT THE VENOM!!!
6. COMMON VAMPIRE BAT
Common Vampire Bat, sometimes known as the Bloodsucking Son of a B*tch, is a species of a Latin American bat that sucks blood to animals and human, just to fill it's weird blood-digesting stomach. And just when you think this bat produce real venom, the common vampire bat actually produce DRUGS not VENOM. People said they're venomous because when they sucks blood, they release it's saliva that full of anticoagulants and rabies. Although it not actually produce venom, we put this bat on the list, because peoples define it's produce venom, and also, it's more dangerous than the other ones because they spread a lot of rabies. Well that's a waste of time.
5. EUROPEAN MOLE
European Mole is the one of the few known mole that produce venom in it's saliva to kill preys. The mole only uses it's venom in a small portion to kill earthworms, and other food-considered bugs and mammals. This animal it's almost blind, so they will eat anything that fit in it's mouth, starting from earthworms, roots, millipedes, centipedes, spiders, and even, small mice and shrews. In the European Mole's paw, there is a wristbone that called the "extra thumb" to help digging moles, like the European Mole, digs better. If this mole go to the surface of the Earth for maybe take a breath, they will make somekind of a bumpy, pimple-like little mole-made mountains, called the Molehill. If you living in Europe see some of your plants in your backyard garden just disappear, it must be fell to the mole's tunnels, or the mole just deliberately pull it down to eat it, but if you see a half eaten vegetable in your garden, don't eat it, it may be bitten by the mole and contaminated by the venom (who even wanna eat a half-eaten vegetable?).
4. NORTHERN SHORT-TAILED SHREW
Northern Short-tailed Shrew, or NST Shrew for short, are large shrew, that have an amazingly high metabolism. Just like bats, the NST uses the echolocation to find prey. Due to the high metabolism, the NST have to eat every three hours. If it's not eat every three hours, they will losing power, faith, then die. In the NST's menu, are earthworms, frogs, toads, centipedes, millipedes, snails, salamanders, mice, voles, and pygmy shrews. For such a big and active prey, there is nothing faster to kill them but venom, and NST shrews have a venomous saliva. If the NST founds prey, they will voraciously devour it, leaving nothing but bones. It's venom is lethal to an animal two time it's size, and can make a bitten spot on human to swell. The NST toxin's structure are very similar to the Mexican Beaded Lizard's toxin structure for some reason. The NST is the most common shrew in the Great Lakes area, it could range around 12 shrews per acre, but in rare occasions, it could range into 80 shrews per acre.
3. EURASIAN WATER SHREW
Eurasian Water Shrew is a duck-footed shrew, that like to swim and hunt fish. Although the shrew's fangs can't easily puncture the skin of large mammals like cats and humans, but the poison of it's saliva it's deadly enough to kill many fish. The shrew's metabolism it's high, so it have to kill and eat 8 guppy-size fish a day and that's will need a lot of venom to use. We put the Eurasian Water Shrew in the higher spot than the Northern Short-tailed Shrew, because the NST shrew's fang is so big, it didn't need a lot of venom to kill it's prey, but the Eurasian Water Shrew's fang it's small, so it needs a relatively large portion of venom to release after it punctures a little bit of it's prey body. Because that the Eurasian Water Shrew is more dangerous than the NST shrew, it "spit" more poisons.
2. CUBAN SOLENODON
The Cuban Solenodon, also called the Almiqui, is an animal that's also already live when we are still Neanderthals. Although the Hispaniolan Solenodon is larger than the Cuban Solenodon, but just like the shrew, the smaller the animal the more the venom, and because of it smaller size than the Hispaniolan, the Cuban spit larger portion of venom to kill it's prey. The Cuban Solenodon it's also considered as the rarest solenodon of all, and listed as endangered by IUCN. Cuban Solenodon also harder to find than the Hispaniolan Solenodon, that in the range of Eastern Cuba, It's seriously hard to find. Since 142 years finding this solenodon, only 37 that's ever caught, and most recently caught in the 2003. The Cuban Solenodon is look like an oversize shrew (ranges from 41 cm to 56 cm) but ate much larger prey than the shrew. It even can eat the shrew itself! But still, it's threatened by Mongooses that brought to Cuba by ship.
1. DUCK-BILLED PLATYPUS
The Duck-billed Platypus, commonly called Platypus, is a (probably) hybrid animal, containing the duck, the otter, and the beaver. Both of the male and female Platypus are special because the female is a monotreme (egg-laying mammal) while the male has a couple of ankle spur that spits venom (the female also has a couple of ankle spur, but it's unvenomous). The male uses it's venomous ankle spurs to fight and dominance in the mating season as well as protecting themselves from large predatory animals. Platypus's venom is powerful enough to paralyze it's predator and to humans, it makes a painful wound in the stabbed spot and the pain won't leave until more than a month. Platypus is the animal that perfectly built to live in rivers, because they got webbed feet to swim agile, a duck-like beak to search prey under muds, a broad tail to increase it's swim speed, and a electrolocation power to find food in the murky water by catching low-voltage-electricity-producing fish by catching the low-voltage electricity the fish produced using it's electroreceptors, just like the Hammerhead.
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