Which plant do tortoises eat to nullify the effects of snake bites?

ferfer72

According to this guy, the only possible answer is "antivenom". http://www.authorama.com/free-from-school-6.html Nov 07 07, 10:48 AM

Baloo55th

Sorry, anti-venom isn't a plant - it's produced in the laboratory usually from snake venom itself (there are snake farms where they 'milk' the snakes for the venom). The answer tragic is looking for is marjoram, but unfortunately this is a very early 'urban legend' type of thing given false authority by being mentioned by Aristotle. He was as open to error as anyone, especially back then. Marjoram has no detectable anti-venom properties that I've ever heard of. I would also think that very few tortoises get bitten by snakes, or as the accompanying reference has it, swallow snakes - even less likely. Snakes bite for two reasons: prey and defence. A tortoise is unlikely to excite the defence reaction in a snake as it is slow moving directionally, but fast in retracting its head and legs. I can't see it being a common prey for the sort of snakes found in Greece or Asia Minor, except perhaps for newly hatched ones which are small and soft shelled. http://www.herbalextractsplus.com/marjoram-leaf.cfm Nov 07 07, 3:37 PM