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Sweet, sweet Rachel!! Thank you for the wonderful and thoughtful holiday gifts!!! I‘m OBSESSED with the lucky cat (I hope it brings good fortune in 2022)! I‘m really excited to read these books 📚 You‘ll get to enjoy all the silky Japanese stationary when I send letters. And that Lego keychain! 💜 I forgot to include the beautiful pouch in the pic, but that‘s where I‘ll keep the stationary and stickers that‘s just for you! You‘re the best! #BFF

This pop sci book that blends biology and a bit of pharmacology is right up my alley. Wilcox discusses venoms - from the exsanguinating to the hallucinatory. (Yes, there are venom dens where people get high on snake bites, duh! 😬🤷🏻‍♀️) She looks a venoms in sea creatures, insects, mammals, and reptiles. And, most exciting, the future of venom science where individual proteins can be isolated for use in pharmaceuticals. ⬇️ #audiobook #reread

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 6 #audiobookcovers

Good morning from KY! Sunrise from the small courtyard facing south.

Just finished up this #audiobook while I was watching the sunrise. It‘s so hard to explain all the myriad of species and situations (from blue-ringed octopus to popular diabetes meds from lizard venom) included! The author did a very comprehensive job in a short space. Highly #recommend. 4.5⭐️

#bfc #bfcr3 book 3/28 #audible #goteam

“Parasitologists always have the best stories.”

As a veterinarian, that is so the truth! Definitely one of my favorite classes.

The above pictures are from a site selling “realistic 3D renderings.” 🤣

I picked this up solely based on @suzisteffen ‘s post, and I am loving it!!! Great #audiobook so far! I had been looking for a pop science book.

HOLY SHIZZLE, I‘m one chapter in, and I‘m already fascinated as heck. DID YOU KNOW THE MALE PLATYPUS HAD A TON OF VENOM IN HIS ANKLE SPURS???? I did not! I love my #science books. 😍😮(🇦🇺 is very yikes, btw!)

Just a note: it‘s REALLY hard to make a grocery list when all you want to do is read about cobra venoms. 😫 🐍 Also, this book is FIRE and if you have even a slight fascination with venomous animals, pick it up!

I don't know how much I will be able to participate in the #readathon because I have to work this weekend but I'm almost done with the first too books and plan to start the last one today.

I'm looking forward to sneaking away to check my phone to see what everyone else is reading. 😃

Such a cool book about venomous animals, from insects to snails to snakes and even mammals. I really enjoyed learning about how venoms are now being used in medicine and the science wasn‘t too “over my head”! #nonfiction #nature

Came home early with a migraine, trying to stay away from overly bright screens (my brightness is all the way down right now) so I started this while taking an epsom salt bath to relax my back/shoulders.

This was a really great, educational book! Although 85% of it was way over my head I still really enjoyed it, and that says alot for the author. She added in alot of interesting anecdotes and relatable stories to keep it from being just boring science!
I'd like to find more like this (it doesn't have to be "venomous" creatures related- just fascinating educational stuff) so if you guys have any suggestions let me know!

Fascinating information about deadly poisons and how people can benefit from them. Did you know that a handful of botulism toxins is enough to kill everyone on the planet, if divided equally among them? Yet you can inject minuscule amounts of it into the forehead of someone overly concerned with wrinkles. I learned about bee sting therapy and recreational use of snake bites and all kinds of cool stuff in this audiobook narrated by Emily Rankin.

Had to take a break from this audiobook while preparing breakfast because it was at a part about wasps employing neurotoxins on prey so that when their larvae hatch they can feed on live animals. The one pictured above is named for the soul-sucking guards of Azkaban prison in Harry Potter's world.

I've read three books in a row that included mention of the ratel (honey badger) and its diet of poisonous snakes: I Contain Multitudes; Badger; and now Venomous. Of course I googled the creature. 81,085,559 people have already viewed this YouTube video, but it was new to me. Made me smile.

I'm not in the mood for anything sweet, so this audiobook is just right for my mood. Bring on the venom!