Summary: <p>This week we’ll learn all about venomous mammals: what are they, will they kill you, and why aren’t humans venomous because that would be cool.</p> <p>While you’re pondering your lack of venom, hop on over and enter my <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/251793-skytown">Goodreads giveaway for my new book Skytown</a>! (Canada and U.S. only, sorry.)</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-298" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/watershrew-300x188.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="188"></p> <p>The adorable and venomous water shrew!</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-299" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/european-mole-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"></p> <p>The adorable and venomous European mole!</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-300" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/hispaniolan_solenodon-300x168.gif" alt="" width="300" height="168"></p> <p>The adorable and venomous Hispaniolan solenodon (there is a pattern in this episode)!</p> <div id="attachment_301" style="width: 310px;" class="wp-caption alignnone"> <img class="size-medium wp-image-301" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/solenodoncubanus1-300x181.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="181"><p class="wp-caption-text">The adorable and venomous Cuban solenodon!</p> </div> <p>Show transcript:</p> <p>Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.</p> <p>For this week’s episode, we’re going to learn about venomous mammals. But first, an ad! Okay, not a real ad. If I ever do run advertisements on the podcast, I’ll put them at the very end so you don’t have to listen if you don’t want to. But I do want to tell you about my new book! It’s called Skytown and it’s published by Fox Spirit Books, a small British publisher you should totally support. All their books are good. Skytown is a fantasy adventure about two ladies who are airship pirates. The book isn’t intended for kids, but I estimate it at about a PG-13 rating—it has some bad language and some mild adult behavior and violence, but nothing adults only.</p> <p>Right now I’ve got a Goodreads giveaway going on through the end of September 2017 for a paperback copy of Skytown, although in this case entries are limited to people in the United States or Canada. I’ll put a link to the giveaway page in the show notes in case you’re interested in entering, or if you just want to learn more about the book. It doesn’t have a whole lot to do with strange animals, although there are a few that are important to the plot, but I think it’s a lot of fun.</p> <p>But now, back to the venomous mammals, and I get to work in a sneaky shout-out to the awesome podcast Varmints! In a recent episode about frogs, one of the hosts gives a good way to remember the difference between venomous and poisonous. If an animal bites you and you die, it’s venomous. If you bite an animal and then you die, the animal is poisonous. There are lots of venomous insects, lots of venomous reptiles, lots of venomous fish, lots of venomous amphibians, but not very many venomous mammals. Oh, and no ve</p>
