Rigor Mortis in Extremis.
I often wonder if you know what I am talking about….
If you've ever watched a rat die of strychnine poisoning, it is not pretty. The animals die in painful convulsions that straighten out their bodies into opisthotonus.
A telltale sign of strychnine poisoning is the rat's head will be stretched back so that its skull touches its spine. It is rigor morti…