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To protect themselves and render their prey helpless, many animals naturally produce venoms, toxins, and poisons.
Other species pick up toxins through the food they consume.
Poisonous animals appear in a wide variety of colours, sizes, and shapes, ranging from jellyfish to snakes or even insects and ants.
The top ten most poisonous animals in the world are listed below:
The only species of snake that is both venomous and toxic is the Asian tiger snake.
The poison acquired from its toad victim is also stored in its skin in addition to the toxins it produces for its bite.
The homobatrachotoxin neurotoxin is stored in the skin and feathers of the hooded pitohui.
On touch, this can give people a minor tingling or numbness but smaller animals are much more negatively impacted.
It is believed that the bird's diet of beetles is where the poison comes from.
Hawksbill sea turtles eat a wide range of prey, including poisonous algae, sponges, and venomous cnidarians, hence their flesh can also develop extremely toxic conditions.
This indicates that anyone who consumes the meat of one of these turtles is probably going to experience marine turtle poisoning, which includes nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, and other stomach-related symptoms.
Bufotoxin, one of the most lethal poisons in the world is produced by the poison glands found in cane toads.
They are especially deadly to dogs since the toxin in their skin is so potent that it can kill a variety of animals.
Tadpoles from cane toads are also extremely toxic to the majority of animals.
The lethal small and brilliantly patterned, dart frog alerts predators that it is unfit for consumption.
Anyone who touches or consumes them will be harmed by their poison, which is stored in their skin.
Cantharidin is a poison produced by the Spanish fly, a species of blister beetle, to ward off predators.
On touch, the toxin is absorbed by the skin and results in excruciating blistering and searing pain.
If the beetle is consumed, the toxin can potentially be fatal and result in ulcers, burning, and bleeding throughout the digestive tract.
Tetrodotoxin, a strong neurotoxin found in comb stars, causes paralysis and eventually death from respiratory failure.
There is presently no recognised treatment for tetrodotoxin, which can kill 520 mice per gram of flesh from comb stars.
There are only three types of poisonous salamanders, with the rough-skinned newt being the most poisonous.
They create a potent odour as a warning but have enough tetrodotoxin in their meat to kill most predators.
Those who are unlucky enough to consume the newt nonetheless suffer from heart collapse and generalized numbness.
Through its food, a striated surgeonfish builds up toxins. They occasionally eat small dinoflagellates that create maitotoxin while grazing on algae.
Each year, 20,000–50,000 people suffer from ciguatera fish poisoning, which is caused by the accumulation of this toxin in their flesh.
The signs and symptoms of ciguatera are similar to those of typical food poisoning, but they can linger for months or even years and are occasionally so bad that the illness is mistakenly labelled as multiple sclerosis.
Pufferfish have deadly nerve poisons that are harmful to humans in their liver, kidneys, and spikes.
Although some societies value the pricey delicacy of the Pufferfish particular species' meat, eating it should only be done by a trained professional chef because if it is improperly prepared, the meat can be lethal.
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