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2019-07-13 at 2:34 PM UTC
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2019-07-13 at 3:39 PM UTC
Originally posted by Common De-mominator True. Most poisonous animal would probably be the puffer fish or some insect or some shit then.
Yeah but most of them you have to eat so does it even matter? There are some poisonous creatures that have active poison on contact. Not an animal but the gympie gympie is a good example. It has pain oil. -
2019-07-13 at 5:10 PM UTC
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2019-07-13 at 7 PM UTC
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2019-07-13 at 7:08 PM UTC
Originally posted by aldra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_poison_frog
Unbelievable that they are only about 5.5cm in size, eh? The literal Touch of Death.
Oh, look!! A pretty frog!!
*touches frog*
*dies 30 seconds later*
The average dose carried will vary between locations, and consequent local diet, but the average wild P. terribilis is generally estimated to contain about one milligram of poison, enough to kill about 10,000 mice. This estimate will vary in turn, but most agree this dose is enough to kill between 10 and 20 humans, which correlates to up to two African bull elephants. This is roughly 15,000 humans per gram. This extraordinarily lethal poison is very rare. Batrachotoxin is only found in three poisonous frogs from Colombia (genus Phyllobates), a few birds from Papua New Guinea, and four Papuan beetles of the genus Choresine in the family Melyridae; C. pulchra, C. semiopaca, C. rugiceps and C. sp. A. Other related toxins, histrionicotoxin and pumiliotoxin, are found in frog species from the genus Dendrobates. The golden poison frog, like most other poisonous frogs, stores its poison in skin glands.
The golden poison frog's skin is densely coated in an alkaloid toxin, one of a number of poisons common to dart frogs (batrachotoxins). This poison prevents its victim's nerves from transmitting impulses, leaving the muscles in an inactive state of contraction, which can lead to heart failure or fibrillation. Alkaloid batrachotoxins can be stored by frogs for years after the frog is deprived of a food-based source, and such toxins do not readily deteriorate, even when transferred to another surface. -
2019-07-13 at 7:14 PM UTCTouching it doesn't kill you. They're safe to handle.
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2019-07-13 at 7:25 PM UTCThey're safe to handle only if raised outside of their natural environment. Touch one that lives in its natural environment and you're dead.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-07-13 at 7:35 PM UTCCertain remote African tribes would crush up the frogs and turn them into a paste and then dip the tips of their spearheads into the mix. Or they would hover them over an open flame and collect the poison as it dripped out. You get hit, or even grazed, with that spear, you'd be dead in minutes.
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2019-07-13 at 8:01 PM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL They're safe to handle only if raised outside of their natural environment. Touch one that lives in its natural environment and you're dead.
A myth. You can touch them. How do you think people tipped their spears with the poison? The poison is not very active dermally. You just get sick, you don't die. -
2019-07-13 at 8:02 PM UTC
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2019-07-13 at 8:34 PM UTC
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2019-07-13 at 8:40 PM UTCYou misspelled motherfucking awesome, barnacle.
Thats my new name for you. Barnacle. -
2019-07-13 at 8:58 PM UTC
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2019-07-13 at 8:59 PM UTC
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2019-07-13 at 9:09 PM UTC
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2019-07-13 at 9:17 PM UTCAre you fucking deaf yes a wild one
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