Snakes have blood clotting compounds in their fangs, the bombardier beetle has corrosive liquid in its abdomen and jellyfish have venomous, harpoon-like structures in their tentacles. But how do these animals survive their own poisons? Rebecca D. Tarvin details the strategies that p...
In addition, some frogs, such as dart frogs, have highly toxic substances on their skin that can be used to deter predators. 问题4:Stick bugs protect themselves through mimicry. Their body shape and color are very similar to tree branches, which makes them almost invisible in their natural...
While many toxic birds get their poisons from their diet, the Eurasian hoopoe (Upupa epops) has its own poison factory. Birds have a gland over their tails called the uropygial gland, which normally makes oils that the animals use to preen their feathers. In Eurasian hoopoes, this gland is...
根据文中The marbled cone snail is a sea creature and its venom is so poisonous that it can result in vision loss(视力丧失), respiratory failure(呼吸衰竭),muscle(肌肉)paralysis(麻痹) and finally death.以及Poison dart frogs are small and brightly coloured but the toxin in its body can cause...
This venom of putter fish is1200 times more dangerous than cyanide. To be precise, venom of a single puffer fish could kill up to 30 adult men.Scientists estimated that even the larvae of puffer fish contains small amounts of poison. Amazingly, in Japanese like to have the meat of puffer...
▲ Pufferfish can also make a strong poison(毒素) from the food they eat. This poison can be very dangerous, even in large animals and humans. One pufferfish can have enough poison to kill 40 people. That's scary!Although pufferfish can be dangerous, people have been eating them for a ...
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Meanwhile, poison dart frogs have also evolved resistance to their own toxins, but through a different mechanism. These tiny animals defend themselves using hundreds of bitter-tasting compounds called alkaloids that they accumulate from...
Ⅵ①There may have been something specific about the poison dart frogs' ancestors that made them predisposed to defend themselves using poison. ②Or it could be largely down to luck, says Summers. Ⅶ①Whatever the truth, nowadays t...