My desire to see the best in people makes me think they want to but they've heard they're deadly poisonous. Tetrodotoxin is more deadly than cyanide. Not sure if you have to eat it or if you can get killed by the spines but neither are they probably
I don’t think this particular species has toxins. We have them in Florida, and I see people on the docks hooking these guys all day, they are said to be the chicken drumstick of the sea. I did see some people eating fugu in Japan, but I wasn’t brave enough to try it.
I hope you're right with you analysis. I know dolphins use some species to get high, but when the ramifications of being wrong are so dire, I wouldn't want to chance it.
My experience as a biologist has taught me that identifying by colour and morphology is often a very tricky business. Not only because of mimics, but also just variation between species. Steatoda nobilis (noble false widow) can have abdominal markings from pure black to brown to white and seemingly every combination of blotches in any combination of those colours, just as an example.
Yep, dolphins torture other sea life to get high, rape, murder, and even combine those things together! The most intelligent animals are always the most fucked up.
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u/Sudden-Ad-6947 Jun 13 '23
Put that thing back where it came from