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Octopuses

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Blue Ring Octopus and the Toxin It Causes

The blue ring octopus has saliva that is more than 1,000 times more toxic than a similar quantity of cyanide yeah so look out don't let them bite you. The treatment for it as far as I know is just like replace your fluids keep try to keep you alive there's not really an anti toxin that I'm aware of and also these live in the waters near Australia  that's the specific region to watch out for themYeah again there's there's hundreds of these octopus species and they're very small about 22 centimeters long or less than nine inches across.

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