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How do thay make poisonous snakes harmless?

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The ONLY way to do that - would be to surgically mutilate the snake, by removing its fangs and venom sacs. HOWEVER - in doing that - you deprive the snake of its primary defence mechanism (and method of subduing prey) !

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