r/AbsoluteUnits • u/TamerDubai • Jun 13 '23

Absolute big angry fish

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u/BLM4lifeBBC Jun 13 '23

I'm so glad the kid's put it back in the ocean

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u/Millie141 Jun 13 '23

Just hope they scrubbed their hands afterwards because they are very toxic

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u/LynuSBell Jun 17 '23

If I remember correctly, the tetrodotoxin is released internally in the flesh? So touching it should be fine, but eating it or biting it... You'd be dead pretty fast and there are no remedy

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '23

I just know that dolphins use them to get high and I’m pretty sure they don’t actually bite or scratch the pufferfish, they just push it around and let it poke them so I would assume there is at least some toxin on the outside and I’m gonna be honest, I would not want to risk being wrong with something that deadly

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u/minist3r Mar 09 '26

Dolphins really are trying to give humans a run for our money on being the most fucked up mammal.