--- title: Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Venomous and poisonous are not the same: a venomous animal pushes its venom into you with a bite or sting, like a snake o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Record-breakers: the most venomous and… # Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous Lesson 188 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/0/) — Venomous and poisonous are not the same: a venomous animal pushes its venom into you with a bite or sting, like a snake or a scorpion, while a poisonous one is harmful if you touch or eat it, like a poison frog or a pufferfish. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/1/) — A simple way to remember: if it bites you and you get hurt, it is venomous; if you bite it and you get hurt, it is poisonous. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/2/) — Some of the most dangerous are small and pretty: a tiny golden frog, a cone shell lying on the sand, a bird with poison in its feathers, so the safest rule is to look but never pick up a wild animal. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/3/) — Venom also saves lives: snake venom is collected to make antivenom, and most scorpions and spiders are no real danger to people at all. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/4/) — The golden poison frog is one of the most poisonous animals, with enough poison in its skin to kill several people, and it gets the poison from insects it eats in the wild. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/5/) — Snake venom is collected to make antivenom: tiny amounts are given to horses or sheep, whose blood makes antibodies (helpers that fight the venom), and antivenom saves thousands of lives every year. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/6/) — Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light because of a chemical in their outer layer; scientists are not sure why, but they use UV lamps to find scorpions at night. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/7/) — The deathstalker is one of the most venomous scorpions, and its venom can be dangerous to children, but most scorpions are not dangerous to people. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/8/) — The Brazilian wandering spider is one of the most venomous spiders; it wanders at night instead of making webs and sometimes hides in bananas, but bites are rare and an antivenom exists. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/9/) — The hooded pitohui of New Guinea is one of the few poisonous birds, with poison in its feathers and skin that it gets from beetles it eats. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/10/) — The geography cone snail stings fish with a harpoon-like tooth and has one of the deadliest venoms, so people should never pick up cone shells. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/11/) — The story that daddy-long-legs are the most venomous but cannot bite is a myth: two kinds of animal get that name, and harvestmen have no venom at all, while cellar spiders have only weak venom. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/12/) — Pufferfish, called fugu in Japan, have poison in the liver and other organs, so only trained chefs may prepare them, and one fish can hold enough to kill about thirty people. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/14/) — Honeybees die after stinging people because the barbed stinger sticks in skin and tears out, but not when stinging other insects. - ← previous: [Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/) - next →: [Masters of camouflage](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/189-masters-of-camouflage/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)