• Jay@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    “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.

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      Pretty sure no dog antivenom is available either. I’m just going to get a venomous snake to be safe.

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      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.

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        The scary part is that it looks like you won’t even feel that you have been bitten, and will know that when you start having problems breathing, and when that happens every second counts.

        Looking at the colors, it looks like it was in fight mode. The person holding it could already be dead.