Monday, 13 May 2013

Pufferfish are not friends or Food!

Ah the pufferfish, a childhood friend comically blown up as a balloon and given as a gift to Fiona in Shrek, and sporting its comical name better than any land mammal ever could whilst also having to deal with being sterotypically bloated.

However, do not be fooled by the name or cuddly appearance... as PUFFERFISH ARE DEADLY CREATURES!!! (the second most deadly vertibrae in the WORLD to be precise, after the poisonous tree frog, whos name just gives it all away!) Pufferfish, or tetraodontidae to scientific people, contain a HIGHLY DEADLY NEUROTOXIN IN THEIR LIVER AND OVARIES which they have developed as a defence mechanism from predators in the sea - and well, humans.

Pufferfish are also a delecacy in some Oriental countries such as Korea and Japan, who serve the Pufferfish flesh raw in sushi, and has to be prepped by SPECIALLY TRAINED CHEFS with TWO SEPARATE KNIFES (one for the edible flesh and another for the deadly, posionous, frankly evil liver) so that the poisin is 100% NOT consumed by humans, which would easily kill a full grown man in less than a minute!

Also, pufferfish only turn puffy as a defence mechanism, inflatting their stomachs with water, causing them to bloat like a lady after 10 McDonalds and expose LOTS OF SHARP SPINES (is there no end to their power moves - sorry Vlogbrothers, just had to use that phrase because wow pufferfish are powerful with their moves!) The pufferfish also has chameleon like features and can change the pattren of its skin to suit it's environment, along with having eyes that can move independently of themselves!

WOW!

So pufferfish are basiccally killing machines (but not to sharks, or lizardfish...) but anyway KILLING MACHINES!!! But the pufferfish has only developed these deadly characteristics so that they are not eaten by predators... so a word of advice general public, if you ever feel like your going to be eaten, bloat that stomach, unleash those hidden spines and produce that toxin that is likely to scare any prey away!

Particle (well, more like molecule, as this was QUITE LONG!) complete!

Sushi
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2 comments:

  1. Loving the Shrek reference! And count me out of ever eating a pufferfish.

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    1. Unless your a bad-ass Korean or Japanese person, who quite frankly are COOL because, well like you I'm now steering well clear...
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