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So cute and squidgy
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"The blue-ringed octopus, despite its small size, carries enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes. Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated until respiratory depression and paralysis begins.[11] No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available.[12]"
Ok. Then I'd rather have a dog.
Some more hopeful information about this little bugger:
It's not ACTUALLY venomous. As in it doesn't inject you with a lethal substance, rather, it injects you with a nerve-toxin which disables your ability to open/close your lungs, which kills you. This sounds just as bad, but it means if you can get to a hospital, and make it to a ventilator, you'll be back to normal by the next day.
Venom doesn’t need to be lethal to be venom.
Venom is a toxin produced by an animal that is actively delivered through a wound by means of a bite, sting, or similar action.
Blue Ringed octopuses are venomous.
@Cypher @Lord_McAlister@lemmy.world....and lethal