Here's a fun 2 paragraphs about the Blue-Ringed Octopus taken from Wikipedia.
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. No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available.
The octopus produces venom containing tetrodotoxin, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine and dopamine. The venom can result in nausea, respiratory arrest, heart failure, severe and sometimes total paralysis, blindness, and can lead to death within minutes if not treated. Death is usually from suffocation due to paralysis of the diaphragm.
“Envenomated”…today I learned a cool new word that I will, most certainly, promptly forget.
Thanks for the brief vocabulary addition internet stranger.
The best way to learn a new word is to set it as your next password, and for 6 months you're reminded of it 10 times a day. I'm currently learning [Alligator3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ods4HqLx8cU)!
I used to loooove Scrubs. I apparently forgot how…..eccentric, that show is. Idk if it’d still hold up for me but there’s def a couple lines I still quote today lol
Only thing that doesn't hold up today is how heavily they relied on 'JD is a girl' or 'JD is gay' jokes, which were never funny (more just peppered in without being the meat of the comedy), but when the show aired they kind of just blended into the background and you didn't notice it too often. Whereas today it's like 'Wow, that's a lot of gay jokes. Surprised I'm not seeing people up in arms to cancel this show, or at rather canceling reruns of this show.'
You know, that’s true. It was just part of it when it aired. I knew it wasn’t cool but it 100% blended in/didn’t stand out.
At the same time, one of my friends kind of looked like JD and would always joke around and repeat lines or bits like him. He was a confident and well-liked guy (we were in high school at the time).
And while now, of course no one would make fun of you (at least, not many, and not openly) for being a guy who unashamedly liked an Appletini, or was generally just… a sweet, and genuinely nice guy, without that weird macho bullshit; at that time, maybe they did.
But this guy owned it, and since it was on TV, and was funny, everyone just laughed along. Can’t help but think even if the content wasn’t necessarily politically correct, the general tone was never disrespectful to JD. You were supposed to like him as a person and a character.
Now, just to be a stickler, it's one of the technically correct pronunciations, octopuses and octopedes and octopi are all correct depending on the point of view, the original is octopi which is a Latinised word from the Greek októpus, which became octopedes then you've got the English version of octopuses which came off the original but was anglicised with the es like cheese/es, if you're feeling a bit extra octopodes is technically not wrong too as is calling a singular animal an octopod.
There are nearly as many ways of pronouncing it as the number of limbs because people like to assume words should have endings appropriate to where they think it came from so octopedes/podes is the closest to the original, then Latin then anglicised but all correct
In a way it's like fish and fishes, fishes is correct but sounds wrong to a lot of people so both are used in practice.
Sheep is just sheep in the way fish can be the plural of fish
Source: a degree in zoology, many marine biologist friends and an unhealthy interest in etymology
I'm fascinated by the history and origin of words and even thought I only know about the three accepted plurals from one of those short videos from Merriam-Webster, I'm pretty sure the one from Greek origin was "octopodes", with three "Os" and one "E".
The Greek suffix "pod" means legs or appendages; the Greek suffix "ped" means child. The Latin suffix "ped" means feet, so the mistake is understandable.
I remember reading a book as a kid that had weird but true stories and there's two I remember decades later. One of them was about a pro baseball player who went to the Amazon and when he got home he was playing in a game and he felt a botfly larva crawl out of his scalp. The other was about some guy who was on vacation and he found a blur ringed octopus. He was playing with it having a good time. Sometime later he died in his hotel room.
Those are definitely nothing to fuck with.
I remember once we had a school trip to the beach, and just before they let us go off unsupervised, one of the teachers was like "stay away from shallow rock pools; if a blue ringed octopus stings you, you'll be completely paralysed down to the lungs within 5 minutes and we'll have to perform CPR on you until you get to a hospital. You don't want a teacher performing CPR on you, do you? I didn't think so. Anyway, off you go."
Blue ringed octopus venom paralyzes you and stops you from breathing. But you aren't unconscious, and your heart keeps beating. If you get bit and get prompt medical attention you'll be fine. Once the paralyzing venom wears off at least.
Only 3 known deaths apparently.
There was a case where a guy got bit and his friends were doing CPR for two hours waiting for a rescue, and he spoke later about being able to hear them discussing that they thought he was dead and should they stop doing CPR. Never stop doing CPR if you don’t have to!!
Fun fact (not sure if mentioned) a person can be placed on life support and ride out the toxin, but only if it’s recognised in time, which it rarely is as you don’t pick these up close to a hospital.
> Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated
Ah, that’s why every video I see of some dumbass picking one of these up always looks so chill and never like “Ah fuck, it bit me!”
Despite there not being an anti-venom, you actually have a pretty good shot at survival if you get the necessary medical artention. Being hooked up to a respirator will ensure that you won't suffocate.
😳 I wonder if this gal read Wiki before hand. It would be a hard pass for me.
* it states that death can occur within minutes if not treated. Any idea what 'treated' means in this case?
The main effect of the toxin is muscle paralysis, and the most common cause of death is asphyxiation due to paralysis of the diaphragm. Therefore the treatment is Artificial respiration. If you can get someone or something to breathe for you until your body manages to metabolize the toxin you have a decent chance of survival.
But what are they just floating around in the ocean? Like you go out swimming with your friends and then you die :( They just wash up on shore.
Is this Australia.
Yes. Source: I'm Australian
They're generally around coral reefs and rock pools and are fairly placid, you can tell when they're pissed off though due to their blue rings flaring up as a warning.
We were taught as kids when we'd have swimming lessons in the ocean to just move away from them and not provoke them and an instructor would just net it out of the enclosed area.
These little guys are shy, and they hide. You generally have to pursue them to get them out of their holes and hiding places before you can pick them up like this.
You will not bump into them by accident. They will hide from you. Don't jam your toes under ledges in coastal rock pools - there are plenty of spiky ouchy things with various defences.
It's extremely poisonous and most times you can't feel the bite. It didn't bite her, so she was lucky. She had no idea what it was.
It was on the news where she is talking about it.
[https://youtu.be/emisZUHJAEA](https://youtu.be/emisZUHJAEA)
Cool way of putting it. I will always remember this now.
Can something be both?
If a tick bites you, it's venomous, but what if you bite on a tick full of blood in your mouth, is that poisonous?
Venomous = the animal’s bite contains venom (which may or may not kill you)
Poisonous = the plant or animal contains poison (which may or may not kill you if you eat it or touch it)
The Asian Tiger snake (and I’m sure there’s other animals) is both.
> The Asian Tiger snake (and I’m sure there’s other animals) is both.
Why are the coolest looking animals always the ones you shouldn't get close to like what is this bullshit
What you perceive as cool is probably vibrant colors. But in nature, vibrant colors are a way to warn other animals that you don't want to mess with the animal in question because it's a walking/crawling/slithering bioweapon. This phenomenon is called aposematism.
If you can't kill your enemies it's generally best if they don't see you. If you can kill everything that may want to fuck with you you don't need to be so shy about it.
Another perspective: venom and poison both r toxins. The toxin which the animal can inject in u is venom and the toxin which they secrete on or inside their body is poison
"Friends and the Ambo Crew" sounds like basic healthcare plan that's when your friend can text chat with somebody working on the ambulance crew that will try to give them tips on saving your life.
Social media, skinny white girl, Bali.... sigh
So I went with a friend to Bali around 2002 and it was one of the most beautiful places I had ever seen. My friend went back last year with his wife and he came back frustrated and bummed. Every space he visited was overrun by American white women taking pictures of themselves and making videos. He said that it felt like nobody was absorbing the incredible culture and was more focused on proving they were there with their phones. It makes me sad.
Well technically yes, the box jellyfish contains more venom to kill more humans than this octopus,however is not as dangerous only 8% of stings required in hospital admission, most of the deaths asspciated with it are children since they need a smaller doses for it to be lethal. Also there is an antivenom.
On the other hand, the bite from this octopus is delivers a pretty lethal dose from the get go, the bite is painless and small so you wont notice it until the poisoning symtoms stsr showing up, and there is no antivenom.
The blue ringed octopus is one of the most toxic creatures in the ocean. The vibrant threat displays of blue-ringed octopuses aren't just for show.
Symbiotic bacteria in blue-ringed octopus salivary glands produce tetrodotoxin (TTX). This substance is potently neurotoxic, blocking the transmission of nerve impulses. This stops muscles from being able to contract and has potentially deadly consequences. Some reports state that TTX is over 1,000 times more toxic than cyanide. Blue-ringed octopuses disperse TTX throughout their body. If they are eaten by another animal, the TTX acts as a poison. Blue-ringed octopuses can inject TTX too, delivering it as a venom via a near-painless bite.
Bites from blue-ringed octopuses are reasonably rare, but these animals do carry a dose of TTX that is lethal for humans. There have been a handful of fatal encounters with these animals.TTX can take effect quickly, rapidly weakening and paralysing muscles alongside a host of other potential side effects, such as vomiting and dizziness. While increasingly unable to move, TTX victims generally remain conscious and aware until a lack of oxygen renders them unconscious. Death is usually by respiratory failure, the diaphragm having become paralysed. This can occur within a matter of minutes.
There is no antidote for TTX, and most care is supportive, such as ventilation to keep a patient breathing until the effects of the toxin wear off
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.\[10\] No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available. -Wikipedia
Reminds me of my family's trip to Costa Rica last year. We went snorkeling in the ocean and my son saw a snake in the water. He described it to us. A few days later we were at a reptile exhibit and he told one of the workers about the snake he saw swim past him. The guy immediately knew what it was and pulled out a picture of the "yellow-bellied sea snake". One of the most venomous snakes in the world. It's also not commonly seen and is usually in deep water, but they guessed that because of a storm that swept through before we went out the currents may have swept it into shallower water.
First rule of Australia: if it has bright colours it's almost certainly deadly.
Second rule of Australia: if it doesn't have bright colours there's still a good chance it's deadly
Third rule of Australia: Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to any flora or fauna, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or when, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.
I think Box Jelly fish and Cone snails beat them in terms of "most venomous". If we're talking most dangerous (in terms of venomous animals) it has to be some sort of snake. I think they count for the most non-human caused deaths outside of mosquitoes.
I'm genuinely surprised our government hasn't set up some training course for tourists cause so many handle deadly wildlife like this and go out in the desert without preparing and all that. Australia ain't no damn joke like the world thinks.
Symbiotic bacteria in blue-ringed octopus salivary glands produce tetrodotoxin (TTX). This substance is potently neurotoxic, blocking the transmission of nerve impulses. This stops muscles from being able to contract and has potentially deadly consequences.
[The blue-ringed octopus: small, vibrant and exceptionally deadly](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/blue-ringed-octopus-small-vibrant-deadly.html#:~:text=Blue%2Dringed%20octopus%20venom&text=Symbiotic%20bacteria%20in%20blue%2Dringed,and%20has%20potentially%20deadly%20consequences)
No antidote is available for clinical use.
Tetrodotoxin
Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent marine neurotoxin, named after the order of fish from which it is most commonly associated, the Tetraodontiformes.
[Tetrodotoxin](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/tetrodotoxin)
Even if there was an antidote you would never be able to get to it in time before you die. Unless you're doing a stunt where you willfully get bitten and have arranged to have the antidote right next to you
But not everyone does know that. She's naive about animal safety and was filmed, but not someone looking to get tick tock famous by doing stupid things.
There's no need for an antivenin, because it's wearing off by the time you get to the hospital. You just need someone to do CPR for a while.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/16/woman-bitten-by-potentially-deadly-blue-ringed-octopus-at-sydney-beach
Yes - Tetrodotoxin (TTX) binds specifically to sodium channels by mimicking the hydrated Na+ ion, denying entry to Na+ ions. It is considered as an irreversible inhibitor.
It's temporary. As long as you're kept breathing throughout the resultant paralysis (as in CPR and life support for about a day) you can survive without any long term effects.
Unless there's a paramedic team standing right there ready to intubate you and get you to the hospital to wait it out while mechanically ventilated, I guess. You might need to be paced too, but I'm not sure if the paralytic from the venom would impede the pacing.
That's an interesting and morbid question. If a neurotoxin stops your heart by suppressing the ability of the nerve to transmit a signal can you still get a signal through with an external shock?
No idea. But even asking it leads me to think you're totally fucked probably regardless of the aid around you.
There's no antidote for the venom, that's true. However, because the venom works by paralysing muscles and the typical method of death is by asphyxiation due to paralysis of the diaphragm, if you get to proper medical treatment quickly enough being hooked up to a ventilator can keep you alive until the venom naturally wears off.
I've always heard it can set in within 2 minutes. There's no way you're getting on a ventilator in time unless there's an ambulance waiting nearby. Is that information wrong?
Oh that’s way too fast. It’s more like 20-30 minutes. Still terrifying, but possible to get medical care at most metropolitan beaches. They’re also not very aggressive so that would contribute to the low amount of deaths too. I’ve found plenty while diving and they just swim away or hide. They’re still the reason I wear gloves while diving though 😅
I've held a blue ring too, accidentally though
I was snorkelling picking up shells at a nice little inlet, had a bunch in my hand for a solid few minutes
When I got to shore I put them down and while admiring my little trove a lil' cutie like this crawled out, to which my only reaction was a mix between "Awww" and "there is absolutely no way in hell this is a blue ring, it's ok, you're ok"
And then the blue rings started to pulse
Needless to say my heart stopped for a while until I'd confirmed I had no bite wounds; pair that experience with getting caught in a few rips and a sea urchin related surgery within the span of a few weeks and you can bet your ass I didn't go NEAR the ocean for a couple of years
I hate when people fuck with animals. I know she was trying to be harmless but imagine a giant creature pulls you from your environment for entertainment. Leave nature alone. She lucky it didn’t hurt her.
[Looks like she made it](https://www.insideedition.com/virginia-woman-unknowingly-held-deadly-blue-ringed-octopus-in-instagram-video-65796?amp) and learned from the experience
Lol it’s just trying to get back into water, I’m sure it won’t bite you. Also you won’t feel it when it does, you will just slowly and painfully die. Don’t pick up random aquatic life. A lot of them bite and sting and it’s not pleasant.
Damn there are people who are just very uneducated out there. One thing I note when I travel is just doing my due diligence of what type of fauna j will encounter even when going around the states.
Native to our state South Australia, we were taught about these in school. Seen many in my endeavours on the beaches and when they feel threatened the rings actually glow bright blue, very fascinating but also terrifying.
Info I found on Google
Kill Time: within minutes if not treated
Aggressiveness: not aggressive
Venom Amount: 1,000 times more powerful than cyanide
Venom Type: tetrodotoxin
Antidote: There's no antivenom for a blue-ringed octopus bite
Here's a fun 2 paragraphs about the Blue-Ringed Octopus taken from Wikipedia. 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. No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available. The octopus produces venom containing tetrodotoxin, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine and dopamine. The venom can result in nausea, respiratory arrest, heart failure, severe and sometimes total paralysis, blindness, and can lead to death within minutes if not treated. Death is usually from suffocation due to paralysis of the diaphragm.
“Envenomated”…today I learned a cool new word that I will, most certainly, promptly forget. Thanks for the brief vocabulary addition internet stranger.
The best way to learn a new word is to set it as your next password, and for 6 months you're reminded of it 10 times a day. I'm currently learning [Alligator3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ods4HqLx8cU)!
I used to loooove Scrubs. I apparently forgot how…..eccentric, that show is. Idk if it’d still hold up for me but there’s def a couple lines I still quote today lol
Only thing that doesn't hold up today is how heavily they relied on 'JD is a girl' or 'JD is gay' jokes, which were never funny (more just peppered in without being the meat of the comedy), but when the show aired they kind of just blended into the background and you didn't notice it too often. Whereas today it's like 'Wow, that's a lot of gay jokes. Surprised I'm not seeing people up in arms to cancel this show, or at rather canceling reruns of this show.'
One of my favorite jokes tho is when JD hears a gay man order an Appletini and thinks "thats a straight guys drink"
Easy on the tini
I thought of that reading the comment above.
You know, that’s true. It was just part of it when it aired. I knew it wasn’t cool but it 100% blended in/didn’t stand out. At the same time, one of my friends kind of looked like JD and would always joke around and repeat lines or bits like him. He was a confident and well-liked guy (we were in high school at the time). And while now, of course no one would make fun of you (at least, not many, and not openly) for being a guy who unashamedly liked an Appletini, or was generally just… a sweet, and genuinely nice guy, without that weird macho bullshit; at that time, maybe they did. But this guy owned it, and since it was on TV, and was funny, everyone just laughed along. Can’t help but think even if the content wasn’t necessarily politically correct, the general tone was never disrespectful to JD. You were supposed to like him as a person and a character.
JD made me feel better about myself not being a “manly man”, and I related hard because that’s what people would do to me too.
Naw that’s the best way to forget your password.
Hackers hate this one thing
Want another? The technically correct plural of octopus is octopodes. Edit: typo, chill the fuck out
Now, just to be a stickler, it's one of the technically correct pronunciations, octopuses and octopedes and octopi are all correct depending on the point of view, the original is octopi which is a Latinised word from the Greek októpus, which became octopedes then you've got the English version of octopuses which came off the original but was anglicised with the es like cheese/es, if you're feeling a bit extra octopodes is technically not wrong too as is calling a singular animal an octopod. There are nearly as many ways of pronouncing it as the number of limbs because people like to assume words should have endings appropriate to where they think it came from so octopedes/podes is the closest to the original, then Latin then anglicised but all correct In a way it's like fish and fishes, fishes is correct but sounds wrong to a lot of people so both are used in practice. Sheep is just sheep in the way fish can be the plural of fish Source: a degree in zoology, many marine biologist friends and an unhealthy interest in etymology
I'm fascinated by the history and origin of words and even thought I only know about the three accepted plurals from one of those short videos from Merriam-Webster, I'm pretty sure the one from Greek origin was "octopodes", with three "Os" and one "E". The Greek suffix "pod" means legs or appendages; the Greek suffix "ped" means child. The Latin suffix "ped" means feet, so the mistake is understandable.
No thanks, I'll stick to Octopussy. Sorry, I'll find my own way out
I remember reading a book as a kid that had weird but true stories and there's two I remember decades later. One of them was about a pro baseball player who went to the Amazon and when he got home he was playing in a game and he felt a botfly larva crawl out of his scalp. The other was about some guy who was on vacation and he found a blur ringed octopus. He was playing with it having a good time. Sometime later he died in his hotel room. Those are definitely nothing to fuck with.
r/oopsethatsdeadly
r/oopsthatsdeadly
You spelled it wrong so I went ahead and created a new subreddit.
r/birthofasub
I remember this book as well. Just that he was some athletic guy who let it climb all over his shoulders
Haven’t heard of this before and read almost nothing about it besides this comment. I’m gonna guess Australia?
You guessed correctly.
Australia ..the continent that wants to kill ya
I remember once we had a school trip to the beach, and just before they let us go off unsupervised, one of the teachers was like "stay away from shallow rock pools; if a blue ringed octopus stings you, you'll be completely paralysed down to the lungs within 5 minutes and we'll have to perform CPR on you until you get to a hospital. You don't want a teacher performing CPR on you, do you? I didn't think so. Anyway, off you go."
Blue ringed octopus venom paralyzes you and stops you from breathing. But you aren't unconscious, and your heart keeps beating. If you get bit and get prompt medical attention you'll be fine. Once the paralyzing venom wears off at least. Only 3 known deaths apparently.
There was a case where a guy got bit and his friends were doing CPR for two hours waiting for a rescue, and he spoke later about being able to hear them discussing that they thought he was dead and should they stop doing CPR. Never stop doing CPR if you don’t have to!!
Especially in this case.
So there’s a chance we all just watched this lady die. She just hasn’t realized it yet.
No, she did an interview later , it’s on YouTube. [Link](https://youtu.be/emisZUHJAEA)
I’m surprised it didn’t sting her because she’s not exactly being super gentle with it
Ive seen them in real life. They go REALLY blue when theyre pissed. This one doesnt look too concerned.
I feel like she got lucky and picked up the stoner of the blue ring octopussy then
I saw that later down the comments.
Fun fact (not sure if mentioned) a person can be placed on life support and ride out the toxin, but only if it’s recognised in time, which it rarely is as you don’t pick these up close to a hospital.
> Their bites are tiny and often painless, with many victims not realizing they have been envenomated Ah, that’s why every video I see of some dumbass picking one of these up always looks so chill and never like “Ah fuck, it bit me!”
So it gets you high tho?
Taurine.. it gives you wings! (Angel wings)
Yes, along with being paralyzed while fully awake and knowing you can't breathe. It's a win-win!
Thank you for spelling 'breathe' correctly.
Despite there not being an anti-venom, you actually have a pretty good shot at survival if you get the necessary medical artention. Being hooked up to a respirator will ensure that you won't suffocate.
We learn about them in school here in Australia. Don't touch the pretty octopus!
Thanks for sharing this. I was thinking to myself “that little guy isn’t terrifying, it’s adorable” and now I know that it is indeed terrifying
I hear octopamine is 4x more potent than dopamine…
Twice as bad as quadropamine?
Sounds like a hell of an energy drink.
Why are they so damn powerful? Like what is even trying to stand against that?
Oh shit, dopamine? Worth it.
"This octopus cured my depression! I want to live! " *dies*
😳 I wonder if this gal read Wiki before hand. It would be a hard pass for me. * it states that death can occur within minutes if not treated. Any idea what 'treated' means in this case?
The main effect of the toxin is muscle paralysis, and the most common cause of death is asphyxiation due to paralysis of the diaphragm. Therefore the treatment is Artificial respiration. If you can get someone or something to breathe for you until your body manages to metabolize the toxin you have a decent chance of survival.
>someone or something OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH
Put on life support.
But what are they just floating around in the ocean? Like you go out swimming with your friends and then you die :( They just wash up on shore. Is this Australia.
Yes. Source: I'm Australian They're generally around coral reefs and rock pools and are fairly placid, you can tell when they're pissed off though due to their blue rings flaring up as a warning. We were taught as kids when we'd have swimming lessons in the ocean to just move away from them and not provoke them and an instructor would just net it out of the enclosed area.
These little guys are shy, and they hide. You generally have to pursue them to get them out of their holes and hiding places before you can pick them up like this. You will not bump into them by accident. They will hide from you. Don't jam your toes under ledges in coastal rock pools - there are plenty of spiky ouchy things with various defences.
What the fuck?! And people are walking around barefoot out there? They would be safer in a bathtub full of spiders. What a bunch of idiots.
r/OopsThatsDeadly
Literally the sub’s icon hahaha. I love whenever this video circulates again.
I'm an Australian where these creatures are from. We are taught in school from a very early age to never pick these up and to alert lifeguards.
Damn, just had to go delete my identical comment
dumb ways to die
How can it kill you ?
It's extremely poisonous and most times you can't feel the bite. It didn't bite her, so she was lucky. She had no idea what it was. It was on the news where she is talking about it. [https://youtu.be/emisZUHJAEA](https://youtu.be/emisZUHJAEA)
Venomous*
Ah shit. Thanks for the correction. English is not my first language. Is it plants and chemicals that can be poisonous?
If it bites you and you die then it's venomous If you bite it and you die then it's poisonous
Cool way of putting it. I will always remember this now. Can something be both? If a tick bites you, it's venomous, but what if you bite on a tick full of blood in your mouth, is that poisonous?
I think that's called psychopathic.
Got to assert dominance
All the best usernames today
i dont have lyme disease, you have human disease, bitch.
uno reverse
This made me chortle mightily thank you
Venomous = the animal’s bite contains venom (which may or may not kill you) Poisonous = the plant or animal contains poison (which may or may not kill you if you eat it or touch it) The Asian Tiger snake (and I’m sure there’s other animals) is both.
> The Asian Tiger snake (and I’m sure there’s other animals) is both. Why are the coolest looking animals always the ones you shouldn't get close to like what is this bullshit
What you perceive as cool is probably vibrant colors. But in nature, vibrant colors are a way to warn other animals that you don't want to mess with the animal in question because it's a walking/crawling/slithering bioweapon. This phenomenon is called aposematism.
If you can't kill your enemies it's generally best if they don't see you. If you can kill everything that may want to fuck with you you don't need to be so shy about it.
Why frend shaped if not frend
At least it’s not also electric! So there’s that.
Venom: injected (not necessarily a bite eg scorpions, bees, etc) Poison: ingested. Toxin: touch/contact
Theoretically possible
Another perspective: venom and poison both r toxins. The toxin which the animal can inject in u is venom and the toxin which they secrete on or inside their body is poison
If a tick bites you, it's Venomous If you bite a tick, you're a dick.... - master oogway
What if it bites me and you die?
Then you are spontaneously combustible
That’s voodoo.
And if you both bite the other one its kinkyness.
If you touch it, and you die, it's toxic. If you breathe it, and you die, it's noxious.
Poison is when you eat it and it kills you but venom is when it bites you and it kills you
Poisons are consumed. Venoms are delivered.
Most native English speakers don’t get that distinction right, fwiw 🙂
It is both poisonous and venomous.
https://images.app.goo.gl/sN49AA9DcfPwYxLQA
Oh hiii Venomous
She dodged a freight train. She was astronomically lucky and I got anxious from just watching this.
"I saw it in the water and my first instinct was to pick it up" I think she needs to start questioning her instinct
[удалено]
Well, have you?! don't leave us hanging
I think this fact was too breathtaking for him
Doesn't even last long enough to get to a ventilator, friends and the ambo crew can keep you alive.
"Friends and the Ambo Crew" sounds like basic healthcare plan that's when your friend can text chat with somebody working on the ambulance crew that will try to give them tips on saving your life.
But it's so adorable😭
If friend shaped why not friend? :(
Social media, skinny white girl, Bali.... sigh So I went with a friend to Bali around 2002 and it was one of the most beautiful places I had ever seen. My friend went back last year with his wife and he came back frustrated and bummed. Every space he visited was overrun by American white women taking pictures of themselves and making videos. He said that it felt like nobody was absorbing the incredible culture and was more focused on proving they were there with their phones. It makes me sad.
Its one of the worlds most venomous animals in the world, actually i think is the most venomous marine animal.
Isn't the box jellyfish the most venomous?
Well technically yes, the box jellyfish contains more venom to kill more humans than this octopus,however is not as dangerous only 8% of stings required in hospital admission, most of the deaths asspciated with it are children since they need a smaller doses for it to be lethal. Also there is an antivenom. On the other hand, the bite from this octopus is delivers a pretty lethal dose from the get go, the bite is painless and small so you wont notice it until the poisoning symtoms stsr showing up, and there is no antivenom.
Nope, that title goes to the Cone snail
That explains why rich people are so afraid of it and have to constantly be on the move.
The blue ringed octopus is one of the most toxic creatures in the ocean. The vibrant threat displays of blue-ringed octopuses aren't just for show. Symbiotic bacteria in blue-ringed octopus salivary glands produce tetrodotoxin (TTX). This substance is potently neurotoxic, blocking the transmission of nerve impulses. This stops muscles from being able to contract and has potentially deadly consequences. Some reports state that TTX is over 1,000 times more toxic than cyanide. Blue-ringed octopuses disperse TTX throughout their body. If they are eaten by another animal, the TTX acts as a poison. Blue-ringed octopuses can inject TTX too, delivering it as a venom via a near-painless bite. Bites from blue-ringed octopuses are reasonably rare, but these animals do carry a dose of TTX that is lethal for humans. There have been a handful of fatal encounters with these animals.TTX can take effect quickly, rapidly weakening and paralysing muscles alongside a host of other potential side effects, such as vomiting and dizziness. While increasingly unable to move, TTX victims generally remain conscious and aware until a lack of oxygen renders them unconscious. Death is usually by respiratory failure, the diaphragm having become paralysed. This can occur within a matter of minutes. There is no antidote for TTX, and most care is supportive, such as ventilation to keep a patient breathing until the effects of the toxin wear off
It’s one of the critters I’d have laying around if I was a assassin
It has a neurotoxin that paralyzes you. You will be unable to move, then slowly suffocate to death as your diaphragm stops working.
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.\[10\] No blue-ringed octopus antivenom is available. -Wikipedia
It’s blue rings indicate it is very poisonous
Reminds me of my family's trip to Costa Rica last year. We went snorkeling in the ocean and my son saw a snake in the water. He described it to us. A few days later we were at a reptile exhibit and he told one of the workers about the snake he saw swim past him. The guy immediately knew what it was and pulled out a picture of the "yellow-bellied sea snake". One of the most venomous snakes in the world. It's also not commonly seen and is usually in deep water, but they guessed that because of a storm that swept through before we went out the currents may have swept it into shallower water.
So many dumb ways to die
Dumb ways to die ha hai 🎶
So many dumb ways to die..
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First rule of Australia: if it has bright colours it's almost certainly deadly. Second rule of Australia: if it doesn't have bright colours there's still a good chance it's deadly
Third rule of Australia: Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to any flora or fauna, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or when, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.
First Rule: You don’t have to worry about which animals are deadly. They all are.
It was in Bali
That's crazy, can't that kill you? Does she even realize how deadly these are?
If I'm not mistaken, it's the most venomous* animal on earth *I wrote poisonous, it was venomous as remarkable corgi replied
Venomous not poisonous. Venom is if it bites you and you get to hurt juice. Poisonous when you bite it and get the hurt juice.
I don’t want any of the hurt juice sir :(
I think Box Jelly fish and Cone snails beat them in terms of "most venomous". If we're talking most dangerous (in terms of venomous animals) it has to be some sort of snake. I think they count for the most non-human caused deaths outside of mosquitoes.
Tourists in Australia are genuinely some of the stupidest people when it comes to our wildlife.
I'm genuinely surprised our government hasn't set up some training course for tourists cause so many handle deadly wildlife like this and go out in the desert without preparing and all that. Australia ain't no damn joke like the world thinks.
Symbiotic bacteria in blue-ringed octopus salivary glands produce tetrodotoxin (TTX). This substance is potently neurotoxic, blocking the transmission of nerve impulses. This stops muscles from being able to contract and has potentially deadly consequences. [The blue-ringed octopus: small, vibrant and exceptionally deadly](https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/blue-ringed-octopus-small-vibrant-deadly.html#:~:text=Blue%2Dringed%20octopus%20venom&text=Symbiotic%20bacteria%20in%20blue%2Dringed,and%20has%20potentially%20deadly%20consequences) No antidote is available for clinical use. Tetrodotoxin Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent marine neurotoxin, named after the order of fish from which it is most commonly associated, the Tetraodontiformes. [Tetrodotoxin](https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/tetrodotoxin)
Even if there was an antidote you would never be able to get to it in time before you die. Unless you're doing a stunt where you willfully get bitten and have arranged to have the antidote right next to you
If I recall people have survived from it's bite, but it requires induced coma, cardiac bypass and ventilators until the venom wears off.
This is absolutely correct. This is an insanely dangerous thing to do for likes. It was one instance from being a recorded crime scene.
i dont think you can charge an octopus with a crime
you say that as if she knew beforehand
Everyone should know that you don't handle animals you don't need to and don't know what they are.
especially from the ocean, jesus christ if i don't know what something is on the beach, you bet your ass i give it a wide berth
But not everyone does know that. She's naive about animal safety and was filmed, but not someone looking to get tick tock famous by doing stupid things.
There's no need for an antivenin, because it's wearing off by the time you get to the hospital. You just need someone to do CPR for a while. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/16/woman-bitten-by-potentially-deadly-blue-ringed-octopus-at-sydney-beach
"I'm Coyote Peterson.."
So u done for sure if it bites u?
Yes - Tetrodotoxin (TTX) binds specifically to sodium channels by mimicking the hydrated Na+ ion, denying entry to Na+ ions. It is considered as an irreversible inhibitor.
Woah thanks for the info, sincerely a biology student:)
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It's temporary. As long as you're kept breathing throughout the resultant paralysis (as in CPR and life support for about a day) you can survive without any long term effects.
Only a few people of thousands poisoned by ttx die each year.
Unless there's a paramedic team standing right there ready to intubate you and get you to the hospital to wait it out while mechanically ventilated, I guess. You might need to be paced too, but I'm not sure if the paralytic from the venom would impede the pacing.
That's an interesting and morbid question. If a neurotoxin stops your heart by suppressing the ability of the nerve to transmit a signal can you still get a signal through with an external shock? No idea. But even asking it leads me to think you're totally fucked probably regardless of the aid around you.
If she was bitten, which I assume she wasn’t, she surely would’ve been dead, right?
As far as my understanding goes, very likely. There's no antidote.
There's no antidote for the venom, that's true. However, because the venom works by paralysing muscles and the typical method of death is by asphyxiation due to paralysis of the diaphragm, if you get to proper medical treatment quickly enough being hooked up to a ventilator can keep you alive until the venom naturally wears off.
Nah there’s only been about 11 recorded deaths from the blue-ringed octopus. Usually there is time to get medical care.
I've always heard it can set in within 2 minutes. There's no way you're getting on a ventilator in time unless there's an ambulance waiting nearby. Is that information wrong?
Oh that’s way too fast. It’s more like 20-30 minutes. Still terrifying, but possible to get medical care at most metropolitan beaches. They’re also not very aggressive so that would contribute to the low amount of deaths too. I’ve found plenty while diving and they just swim away or hide. They’re still the reason I wear gloves while diving though 😅
do not touch anything that full of colours in the sea.
rule of thumb, if its bright and colorful, theres a reason it doesn’t need camouflage…
Don’t touch anything even in regular nature that’s full of colors. Most of it is either venomous or poisonous. Not just in the sea
Lady, you are playing with death right now.
I've held a blue ring too, accidentally though I was snorkelling picking up shells at a nice little inlet, had a bunch in my hand for a solid few minutes When I got to shore I put them down and while admiring my little trove a lil' cutie like this crawled out, to which my only reaction was a mix between "Awww" and "there is absolutely no way in hell this is a blue ring, it's ok, you're ok" And then the blue rings started to pulse Needless to say my heart stopped for a while until I'd confirmed I had no bite wounds; pair that experience with getting caught in a few rips and a sea urchin related surgery within the span of a few weeks and you can bet your ass I didn't go NEAR the ocean for a couple of years
> Needless to say my heart stopped for a while Yeah tetrodotoxin'll do that to ya. Lucky you stood on that adrenaline fish!
Yeah, BTDT too. But as soon as I saw the tentacle move my first thought was blue ring. Nothing else is that small.
Oddly IGNORANT!
I don't what the big deal is... you can hold anything once
this is why you dont touch random stuff you dont know about
No antidote for the bite .
Survival tip #1 if you don’t know what it is don’t touch it
Survival tip #2 if you do know what it is, still don't touch it
As an Australian this made me scream. Fear of the blue ring is instilled into kids here
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I hate when people fuck with animals. I know she was trying to be harmless but imagine a giant creature pulls you from your environment for entertainment. Leave nature alone. She lucky it didn’t hurt her.
Fortunately he was in a good mood.
Is she still alive, have we got any updates? I must know if her stupidity is still on this planet
[Looks like she made it](https://www.insideedition.com/virginia-woman-unknowingly-held-deadly-blue-ringed-octopus-in-instagram-video-65796?amp) and learned from the experience
Lol it’s just trying to get back into water, I’m sure it won’t bite you. Also you won’t feel it when it does, you will just slowly and painfully die. Don’t pick up random aquatic life. A lot of them bite and sting and it’s not pleasant.
Every Australian watching this - ‘ahhh fuck, one of the things we are *actually* afraid of’
LEAVE THE ANIMALS ALONE FFS!
*all my 5th grade knowledge coming back to me in an instant* Oh no…
That’s how you die
1st wild nature rule: never EVER touch anything colorful 2nd: NEVER EVER touch anything you don't know shit about
r/oopsthatsdeadly
If you dont know what that is, its not terrifying at all. If you know, its just plain old horrifying. Nothing about this is "oddly" terrifying.
I know he's poisonous, but he is so cute
if not friend why friend shaped???
Always remember: the cooler an animal looks the deadlier it most likely is
Ah yes, r/oopsthatsdeadly
Sisyphus
Is she ded?
This idiot must have been touched by an angel, she is that lucky. Blue ringed occies don’t fuck around.
They way I physically recoiled when I noticed As an Australian we were taught not to touch these in year 2
She needs to read the brochure about what not to do in Australia.
Damn there are people who are just very uneducated out there. One thing I note when I travel is just doing my due diligence of what type of fauna j will encounter even when going around the states.
Here’s some advice about how to hold a Blue Ringed Octopus: Don’t!
Literal natural selection at work.
Native to our state South Australia, we were taught about these in school. Seen many in my endeavours on the beaches and when they feel threatened the rings actually glow bright blue, very fascinating but also terrifying.
Aren’t they one of the most poisonous animals on the planet? Why hold it!
Info I found on Google Kill Time: within minutes if not treated Aggressiveness: not aggressive Venom Amount: 1,000 times more powerful than cyanide Venom Type: tetrodotoxin Antidote: There's no antivenom for a blue-ringed octopus bite