Hello! And welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast. Animals are awesome, which is why we've done dozens of episodes on animals.

And why more than a third of the episode topic suggestions we receive are on animals. But some animals are a little less awesome than others. If for no

other reason, then they have something that can hurt humans or other animals, making them

dangerous. Mailbag! Mailbag! Hi, my name is Hayden and I live in Hertfordshire United Kingdom.

I would really like you to do an episode on Venom and feel free to add something about poison

in the episode too.

I love your podcast.

I would rate it five stars.

My mummy drives me to school every morning and we listen to your podcast religiously.

Thank you for your hard work, lots of love, Hayden, age seven.

Thanks for that awesome email, Hayden.

Getting wonderful messages like yours makes all the hard work worth it.

We are so excited to get curious about Ven venom for you this week, and we are definitely

going to let everyone know the difference between venom and poison, because people sometimes

get those two things confused. Let's do that right now. Poison is delivered when you lick,

eat, or touch a poisonous animal. Venom is delivered when the animal actively puts poison in you.

Exactly.

So if you lick a frog and get sick, that's poison.

If a snake bites you and you get sick, that's venom.

If you like the snake that bit you, first of all, terrible idea.

Then congratulations. You've achieved both.

Is it nature fun? Kids, today we're going to dive into some wild venom facts. Snakes, spiders,

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