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The South American tapir eats toxic plants all day long But only one leaf off of each, and then eats kaolin clay.
by angiosperm 3y ago
The South American tapir eats toxic plants all day long
But only one leaf off of each, and then eats kaolin clay.
- Jun8 3y agoThe tapir is wise as was Mithridates, as told by Housman: There was a king reigned in the East: There, when kings will sit to feast, They get their fill before they think With poisoned meat and poisoned drink. He gathered all the springs to birth From the many-venomed earth; First a little, thence to more, He sampled all her killing store; And easy, smiling, seasoned sound, Sate the king when healths went round. They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up: They shook, they stared as white's their shirt: Them it was their poison hurt. I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old.
- angiosperm 3y agoBut don't neglect the kaolin.