The reaction to “poison” oak and ivy is also immune-system based, but it’s still a defensive chemical.

People who are actually allergic to lorises (and that includes most people alergic to cats) suffer from a distance and from airborn particles. Most humans only suffer from contact.

Here’s a link to the BBC page for the documentary:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00nflz1 

Saxon animals go to France when they die

I was taught that during Norman rule in England, French was the language of the nobility, and English the language of the common people- and so French speakers would be unlikely to meet animals except when served as food.

(I have no idea whether this is actually true, or just one of the many urban legends regurgitated by my school teachers).

Now you know.

mansionmid-14c., “chief residence of a lord,” from O.Fr. mansion “stay, permanent abode, house, habitation, home; mansion; state, situation” (13c.)

But the word “Mansion” is an example of French appropriating Latin and English also appropriating Latin. 
House/Haus is an example of a word continuously in use by those that would become the English and those that stayed on the continent. 
The inhabitants of what is now England, and what was part of the Roman imperial province Britannia, already knew the Latin word before the English peoples arrived.  
Why are you mentioning French at all? 

Look up what a mansion is. 
The Wikipedia article begins with: “A mansion is a very large dwelling house.” 

Maison != mansion in English.
Was that your point?
That the French assigned a different meaning to the Latin word than the English did?

Mansion != house in English.

Also, odd that this doesn’t mention stings, which account for many, if not most, envenomations.

Never heard of a loris before

You are clearly not spending enough time at I Can Haz Cheezburger or Daily Squee.

Swine (German Schwein) become pork (French porc)
Cows and oxen (German Kuh and Ochs) become beef (French boeuf)
Calves (German Kalb) become veal (French veau)
Sheep (German Schaff) become mutton (French Mouton)

Maison : from Old French maisun, from Latin mansiō (“ abode, home, dwelling”)
Mansion : from O.Fr. mansion

House/Haus/Hus is what Angles, Saxons and Jutes called their abodes even before they moved to those islands.

I did learn something interesting from a Park Ranger here in Phoenix AZ. Most older venomous snakes DON”T use venom when they strike at things they have no intention of eating, they’re conserving it for food. She said the snake has learned through the years that their strike is enough and venom isn’t needed. It’s the young ones who don’t know better and some die because they don’t have enough venom stored for their next meal. 

I don’t know why rattle snakes get such a bad rap, what other creature warns you with audible sounds warning unsuspecting wanderers not to step on them. The snake knows you’re too big to eat, they’re just being courteous. Pretty ingenious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venomous_mammals 

SOME, NOT ALL:

Venomous
-Shrew 
-Mole
-Platypus

Venomous/Poisonous
-Loris
-Hedgehog 

Poisonous
-The most unique, the African Crested Rat, eats poisonous bark then applies the mixture to a part of it’s fur that’s designed to soak up the poison. 

What about “allergic reactions”, those kill too, probably more than poison and venom combined, like asthma. In the United States, 9 people die daily. 

My point is, “poison” is very subjective, it’s usually in place of “toxic”, and many things can be “toxic”, like relationships. 

I guess the Loris is the Platypus in the poison/venom debate.