the puffer fish 1 presentation by hoel seznec background about the puffer fish: more commonly known...
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The Puffer Fish
1Presentation by Hoel SEZNEC
Background About the Puffer fish:
more commonly known as the Japanese puffer fish.
There are nearly 100 kinds of puffer fish worldwide.
Live in salt water or fresh waterThey can grow up to 70.0 cm.
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Its food
Algae
Mollusks
Invertebrates
crustaceans
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Its defenses
It inflates its body
It poison his prey, enough poison to kill 30 humans
It doesn’t fear its environment
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Japanese like it in sushi !
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Its poisonThe Second most poisonous vertebrate on earth,
Poison = tetrodotoxin =lethal poison=1200 more deadlier than cyanide,
It is possibly that a human can survive to a bite
Otherwise death is possible in 30 minutes
It is use in voodoo to make zombies
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Its poisonNo antidote,
It paralyze muscles => death by asphyxiationThe victim stays conscious,
A medical approach is to support the respiratory and circulatory system,
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Where come from the poison?The poison is located on intern organs :Liver, ovaries, skin, testes, intestines.
- The poison is made by a toxin located on algae. The puffer fish eat the bacteria and digest it to make the poison,
- If the puffer fish is raised in artificial place it is not poisonous,
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Where come from the poison?It is the same poison in the cone snail or the
blue-ring octopus
The bacteria are located on red limestone algae at -100 m
It is the pseudomonas and vibrion.
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An other use of the poisonMedical use : Anesthetic Better than any opium or morphine No dependance
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