Venom is actively injected into a victim through a wound (like a bite or sting), while poison is absorbed passively through ingestion, inhalation, or touching (like eating or touching the organism).
Venom requires an active delivery system. Animals use it for hunting prey or defending themselves.
Poisons are a passive defense mechanism. The organism does not attack you with it; you must interact with them for it to affect you.
Examples of Venomous animals: snakes, scorpions, spiders, wasps, and the platypus.
Examples of poisonous animals: poison dart frogs, pufferfish, monarch butterflies, blister beetles, rough-skinned newt.
The best way to remember the difference between Venomous animals and poisonous animals is through the expression: If you bite it and you die, it's poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it's venomous!
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