Clarify a definition

Nothing major, but this is a teeny little pet peeve of mine:
If you bite it and you die, it's POISONOUS.  If it bites you and you die, it's VENOMOUS.  I heard someone on a nature show today use that incorrectly.

Example: the wild mushrooms were obviously poisonous as the whole party lay gasping and convulsing in their own silent death throes.  The black mamba hid in the tree overhead, his venomous bite eliciting the same response in the small rat it chose as his dinner.

I watched a doc on Jane Goodall and heard the saddest thing EVER.  Don't look under the cut if animal death bothers you.
( sad monkey story - SERIOUSLY. )

Waaahhh!!  Now something completely different, in that it is sweet and happy:

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I want to hear mother/baby stories.  They can be gruesome, sweet, sad, apathetic, anything.  I'm working on a thesis, and want to hear from my buds around the world.  Nothing is off putting to me.