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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2343799" data-attributes="member: 19675">Most RW Predators that use poison tend to strike, giving (what they feel is) a deadly dose of poison and retreating, allowing the victim to wander off and die, eventually tracking their prey down.  This minimizes both the energy expenditures and the amount of harm that comes to the predator.The poisonous predators that DON'T use this tactic tend to be either 1) swarming hunters or 2) equipped with incredibly powerful venoms that work in seconds, at least on their intended prey.This tactic is even used by tribal hunters in the Amazon Rainforest who use poison with their blowguns.  Rather than deal with a struggling monkey or pig, they hit it, let it flee and track it.Drow who don't use this tactic are either cornered, dumb, or overconfident.Remember, too, that even creatures with animal intelligence understand the significance of numbers at some level.  Most ambush predators tend to attack isolated individuals, not tightly grouped targets.  They instinctively realize that attacking a group is dangerous.In the alternative, such predators that don't have that option of attacking only isolated targets have some way of removing a target from a group.  Aquatic reptiles bite, grab and drag their targets into the water.  Trapdoor spiders lunge, bite, and drag their prey back into the tunnel.  Others may strike and drag their prey while continuing to move at a high rate of speed (though this requires a great size disparity between predator & prey).</blockquote>

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