For those who don’t know: Blue-Ringed Octopus 🐙
They can be identified by their yellowish skin and characteristic blue and black rings that change color dramatically when the animal is threatened.
Anything that becomes more visible when you threaten it… you’re not the threat.
“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.
I read in another thread on a other website that the original poster of this picture had some sort of liver disease and was dying from it, and sorta went YOLO at the chance to pick up a blue ringed octopus. They knew how dangerous it was, but for once the phrase “it will hurt the whole time you’re dying” was met with “it already is”
I know someone who gave CPR on someone bitten by one of these.
They lived because of the CPR. They came out of hospital fine, except they were now blind because their eyes were open staring up at the hot summer Aussie sun for the entire time they were getting CPR etc.
Besides, how likely is it for that tiny octopus to bite you, unless you are literally trying to get bit?
More than zero
I can’t believe I’m seeing this. Sure hope it’s fake.
It’s real.
What’s going on with the person’s skin?
Their hand is half in very clear water.
Wow… That’s what happens when you wake up in the middle of the night and start checking Lemmy
The Splatoon 3 player base had gone through this 4 months ago
I mean, you shouldn’t lift aquatic creatures out of the water, ever, but what else is happening in this picture?
That tiny octopus is one of the deadliest animals on the planet. It has an extremely potent neurotoxin that has no cure/anti-toxin. You often don’t even know you’ve been bitten by one until you can’t breathe. By then it’s almost guaranteed to be too late. The only way to survive is to be put on a ventilator until the toxin wears off but the chances of getting to one in time is extremely minor.
I don’t like the funky and colorful creatures. They are always so clingy! It’s like they want you to touch them for the rest of your life.
