Last breath (Animal trait)

The last breath is the ability for some creatures (most notably basilisks) to exhale deadly carbon monoxide gas. 
This is due to the basilisk's ability to exhale into its stomach directly, where the regular carbon dioxide will bond with the other gases present and form carbon monoxide. The serpent when hunting will unleash the gas at its prey and wait until it dies of the toxicity of the gas. Basilisks are ambush predators, they will wait in trees or inside caves near the mouth, inhaling massive amounts of oxygen to create carbon monoxide. When prey is nearby it will unleash the gas and (when possible) drop onto their sickly prey.
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