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Originally Posted by FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0
Think I've shared this before, but just in case I haven't; friend of mine does research in to the medical use of native Australian animal venom. In his lab, he has a female Sydney funnel web, as well as a number of of native tarantulas. He showed us how he milks the funnel web for venom, by agitating her until she has venom visibly hanging from her fangs, then uses a sucking tool to suck up the venom and place it into a specimen container.
She is kept in a small plastic takeaway style container, with a bit of dirt and wood for her to feel 'comfortable' in. The dish is kept in a fridge under his work desk in the lab.
I asked him how he learnt to collect the venom sample. He said he watched a couple of youtube videos and the rest of it was trial and error  |
Plenty of places along the harbour in Seaforth (Sydney) he could dig around
to find fine examples. Gives me the creeps.
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