Show desert animals that scorpions cant harm one of the most fascinating chapters in animal poisons Is the subject of natural immunity them the fact that thai some animals are immune to the poisons of others and remain unhurt if stung or bitten by the poisonous animal mal whereas all other sorts of beasts succumb A case in point Is that of desert animals are unharmed by a scorpions wor sting the desert fox the kangaroo rat nit and other inhabitants of deserts whore where scorpions abound are in this happy position their cousins living far away from the desert would at once be seriously injured by a scorpions sting whereas the desert breads remain on unhurt hurt it II Is to he be pup posed that in tre tc tar far distant past before the desert animals had this I 1 complete immunity to scorpion venom I 1 those which were stung and could not resist died leaving no offspring their I 1 luckier brothers who happened to have fl a hardier constitution survived and left behind them a resistant race of descendants prof 11 alunro fox fos in the forum |