The prey, who are ruled by the predators, is one of the two major types in the world. Nature is just like that. However, some people do not remain weak; they occasionally resist. Some animals have the strength to defend themselves and even triumph over predators. These are predator-resistant creatures that can protect themselves.
1. Intriguing octopus and puffer fish interaction is captured in a rare video.
Chris Taylor and Carrie Miller, two divers, were surveying the coral reef off Fregate Island in Seychelles. A battle between an octopus and a pufferfish was captured on camera.
A pufferfish was being dragged by the octopus into a space between several corals. The fish acted aggressively since it didn’t want to give in to the marine animal. The octopus then adopted a different strategy: it emerged from the cover and grabbed the fish with its tentacles, nearly encasing it, but the fish was able to fend off the onslaught.
People were left puzzling as to why the large blue octopus would fight such a thing. The majority of pufferfish have tetrodotoxin in their organs, a neurotoxin that is at least 1,200 times more strong than cyanide and gives the fish a foul taste to predators. There is no known cure for the venom found in pufferfish, which may kill thirty people in one bite. Although tetrodotoxin is poisonous to humans, no one is aware of how it affects octopuses. The octopus was either impervious to the poison or oblivious of its danger, according to some people.
How could the octopus eat a creature covered in poisonous spines, even if it were resistant to the toxic fish’s insides?
2. Researchers create a hagfish-based shark-slime weapon
Hagfish seems like a simple dinner to prepare. Although the sinuous, eel-like body of the creature lacks evident defenses, any predator moving in for a bite is in for a deadly surprise. A quick-setting slime that jams the predator’s gills and causes it to gag, choke and escape is released by the hagfish.
They are dreadful feeders. They eat their way out of corpses by burrowing deep inside of them, and they may even take in nutrients through their skin. Additionally, when attacked or irritated, they exude a lot of slime from the thousands of pores that cover their body. Large mucus proteins called mucins make up the slime, which is held together by longer protein threads. It dramatically increases when it comes into contact with seawater, becoming over a thousand times more diluted than other animal mucus. Hagfish may quickly block a bucket of water, and in 2006, researchers found that shark gills can also become blocked by the slime.
3. Newt that was swallowed survives.
It’s difficult to imagine that a harmless, cute little newt could cause so many issues, but given its extreme potency—far more potent than rattlesnakes or black widow spiders—it is possible that you are staring at the deadliest animal in our nation.
The lethal neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, which is also present in deadly puffer fish and blue-ringed octopus, is only present in this tiny newt and no other land species. Even though there is some indication that the newt can make its own toxin, the octopus obtains its toxin from another organism that lives inside of it.
Thankfully, the neurotoxic only poses a threat if the newt is eaten. It has no impact on our drinking water because it doesn’t seep into its surroundings. The majority of the time, these creatures won’t harm us much if we can avoid eating them.
The same holds true for other creatures that might eat newts. If predators simply select another meal, then they won’t be poisoned.
