Scioly Assassination 133: Zoo Escape

[Assassinator]

Welcome to the Walnut Zoo! For each clue, an active user of SciOly.org will be trapped in an exhibit by one of the ferocious (or not so ferocious) animals. You will have 48 hours to escape by solving the clue, or someone will die.

The rules:

1. The next five people who post their favorite venomous animal will be officers. Put in a bit of thought before posting. If you have not been around for awhile, it is less likely that you will be able to identify me.
2. There will be no "informants", but civilians may post.
3. People will die. However, there are some exceptions. I will not kill administrators or moderators. In return, I ask that they not reveal my identity.
4. Officers may protect one person per clue.
5. Once an officer has made three incorrect accusations, he may not accuse or protect anyone and will not be replaceable.
6. The assassin will provide clues which plainly point to his next victim, and occasionally to him/herself.
7. The assassin will continue to post with his true account, and may provide hints there.
8. When accusing someone of being Assassinator you must use the following template "I accuse (place name here) because (give reason here)." If you don't use this template when accusing the accusation won't count.
9. Once "killed" a user will be allowed no more than one “ghost” post.
10. If an officer protects him/herself for more than 3 rounds in a row, then he/she will die, and will not be replaceable.
11. Civilians may post.
12. Each clue will last 48 hours, after which the Assassinator will kill.
13. If the Assassinator does not reply in 7 days after all protects are made, each officer gets a free accusation. However that accusation must be made next time the user posts and cannot be stored as an extra one to use later.
14. Each officer begins with one accusation. You will earn an accusation with each correct protection.
15. The Assassinator wins after 15 incorrect accusations have been made, but the number needed to win goes down by one with each kill, or if all officers are killed.
16. The Assassinator reserves the right to add to these rules as he/she deems necessary.

Good luck, and don't die.

[TheChiScientist]

I'll take the first spot with the Black Mamba

[TheMysteriousMapMan]

I'll be second with the cone snail

[MadCow2357]

Stonefish for me! I'll be the third officer.

[linzhiyan]

Scorpions for the win! 4th officer

[UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F]

SciOly.org

Already judging the Assassinator from this capitalization

[JoeyC]

I'm waiting for someone to post a toxic animal instead of a venomous one.

[TheMysteriousMapMan]

I'm waiting for someone to post a toxic animal instead of a venomous one.

I double-checked to make sure I didn't make that mistake, because I knew, given the nature of Science Olympians in general, I would be corrected if I was wrong.

[UTF-8 U+6211 U+662F]

Aren't venomous animals toxic though?

[Assassinator]

Aren't venomous animals toxic though?

Just going to leave these here.
https://www.wideopenpets.com/difference ... om-poison/
https://gelatinoussting.com/2018/04/11/ ... -vs-toxin/