| He provided the Commonwealth Serum Laboratory with snake venom, including that of the taipan, for antivenom production. |
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| The Hong Kong-based retailing taipan disagreed so much that he has made an offer of 250p a share to take the company back into private hands. |
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| The taipan, is the world's most poisonous snake and also lives in this unforgiving land. |
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| During the breeding season, the coastal taipan deposits clutches of 7 to 17 eggs, whereas O. microlepidotus lays between 12 and 20 eggs. |
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| Just this February, Dr. Fry and his colleagues filed a patent for a molecule found in the venom of the inland taipan that may help treat congestive heart failure. |
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| The coastal taipan produces venom that is nearly identical to that of its inland cousin. |
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| Mr Smith cites a figure for his firm's annual sales growth that would make a taipan raise his eyebrows. Broke among the barbariansThe lot of a Chinese expatriate in the West is less peachy. |
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| The shape of the tower differs from every angle, forcing you to walk the whole way around it before it imparts all its secrets. Henry Keswick, a Hong Kong taipan, will be looking to top even Mr Hobhouse's modernist ambitions. |
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| In contrast, the Central Ranges taipan prefers arid, sandy habitats. |
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| Of course it was very sad, but the taipan could hardly help a smile when he thought how many of these young fellows he had drunk underground. |
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| A TEENAGE boy is critically ill in an Australian hospital after being bitten by the world's most venomous snake, the inland taipan. |
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| While the Australian black, brown, copperhead, the death adder, and taipan snakes are all poisonous, the real troublemaker is the tiger snake. |
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| No practitioner reported having treated a sea snake or taipan bite, and only a single practitioner reported treating a tiger snake, brown snake or black snake bite. |
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| Taipan venom is overwhelmingly neurotoxic, including pre and post-synaptic neurotoxins, as well as powerful procoagulants and myolysins. |
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| If he pointed the bone at anyone, that man soon died. If an enemy of Taipan came up to him, he would point the bone at him. |
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