Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Grasshopper mice take scorpion venom that could kill a human and use it to numb their pain. What makes these tiny mice so hardcore?
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Sources:
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/24/this-mouse-turns-agonising-scorpion-venom-into-a-painkiller/
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/342/6157/441
https://courses.washington.edu/conj/membrane/nachan.htm
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