Mad Man Coyote Peterson Extracts Venom From One Of The Deadliest Spiders On The Planet

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Coyote Peterson is a bonafide crazy person. Not type of crazy that makes you get into a different subway car because you think he’s going to stab you, he’s got that special Steve Irwin type of crazy which stems from a deep love of animals.

Coyote Peterson will pick up the deadliest creatures on the planet with reckless abandon. He’s taken bites from the most painful creatures on planet earth, including giant centipedes and bullet ants. He’s manhandled black widow spiders.

Today, he’s in Australia and has captured a particularly large Sydney Funnel Web Spider and brought it to the Australian Reptile Park for venom extraction. The Australian Reptile Park is one of the premiere reptile facilities in the world, capable of handling the deadliest creatures on the planet for both display and research purposes. Coyote’s captured a local specimen and brought it in to extract venom:

A single bite from one of these Sydney Funnel Web Spiders can kill you. These spiders are found within a 100km (62-mile) radius of Sydney, Australia so we have nothing to worry about here stateside. A single dose of antivenom, the stuff Coyote Peterson was making above, takes somewhere around 70 milkings from a single spider. That means that an expert needs to handle these spiders ~70 times to make a single dose to treat a bite from one of these spiders. If that doesn’t contextualize how rare antivenom actually is at hospitals than I don’t know what will.