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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rexesq, post: 980209, member: 5739&quot;]Yes, the bacteria in the mouth of the Komodo is quite nasty stuff, I saw an experiment where they put a few drops of some Komodo saliva on a piece of steak and let it sit for a few days... the results were not pretty, the control steak was fine, but the one that got the Komodo juices looked awful....&nbsp; </p><p>With Gila Monsters the venom comes from the fangs on the lower jaw. Unlike a rattlesnake which injects it&#039;s venom like a hypodermic syringe, the Gila Monster will bite and clamp on, letting the venom come out of the teeth on the lower jaw, and into the wound created by the bite. This is part of why they tend to hold onto whatever they bite.&nbsp; A tourist, I think Dutch, was walking around the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, and was foolish enough to point his finger close enough to a wild Gila Monster, for the lizard to bite him. I don&#039;t know if he lost the finger or not, last I heard he was trying to sue the Desert Museum.... some people....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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