动物学家发现,虎斑颈槽蛇通过吃一种分泌二烯羟酸内脂毒素的蟾蜍将毒素储存在身体内以抵御捕食者的危害。它会将毒素储存在颈背部,当遇到天敌鹰时通常拱起颈部,如受到威胁便会释放储存的毒素。但目前专家还没有研究出到底虎斑颈槽蛇是如何在不消化毒素的前提下将毒素储存起来并转移到毒腺里的,而毒素在其体内又经过了怎样的化学转变。 Zoologists have found that tiger neck snakes store their toxins in the body by eating a steroid that secretes a dihydrotoluene diketotoxin to protect the predator. It stores toxins on the back of the neck and usually arches the neck when encountering natural enemy eagles and releases stored toxins if threatened. However, experts have not yet studied how the tiger’s neck serpent is stored and transferred to the poison glands without digesting toxins, and what kind of chemical transformation the toxin has undergone in its body.