re: Indigo snake eats rattlesnake then goes about his day like a bauce

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The poison has to enter the blood to do anything

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Venom technically (rule of thumb: vemon is injected while poison is ingested). But yeah, the venom is a hemotoxin which should only be dangerous if it enters the circulatory system. Now if some of the undenatured venom is absorbed during digestion, that snake could be in trouble. Oddly enough, the vemon could then be considered a poison