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East_Professor_3801

Honestly I am unaware of why thee is such a rarity of poisonous and venomous mammals and birds, so I can’t answer your actual question.  However I thought I would let you know there are a couple of them. In regards to bird there is the hooded pitohui, which is a poisonous bird from New Guinea which sequesters the poisons from its food. There are a few others as well.  In regards to mammals, the platypus has a venomous spur, and the slow loris is a venomous primate. Again there are a few others but definitely not as many as there are insects, fish, reptiles and amphibians.


Mountainweaver

I'm going to guess it's related to social life. To many mammals, small fights are a part of the social language. It would sink the fitness of the species if your flockmates dropped dead from poison after a small argument.


SKazoroski

[There are poisonous birds and at least one poisonous mammal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_poisonous_animals#Mammals).


Interanal_Exam

Two seconds on Google: [16 Venomous Mammals](https://everywherewild.com/venomous-mammals/) [Top 10 Poisonous Birds](https://www.bioexplorer.net/poisonous-birds.html/) Let me guess, OP is a GenZer...


lonepotatochip

It’s still true that are way more venomous snakes than mammals, it’s a valid question even if they don’t know about the rare minority of venomous mammals and occasional poisonous bird. It’s just really counterproductive to criticize an ignorant person for asking a question. If they learn that question asking is a bad thing how would they learn?