The battle for survival of animals in the natural world has led them to develop a variety of weapons for self-defense as well as natural predators that are specific to each species. In particular, venom can be considered as the most effective and dangerous tool that nature gives to many different species. Here are the animals with the most powerful venom in the world.
1.Fish Puffer
Puffer fish meat is an extremely rare specialty in Korea and Japan. However, few people know that the skin of this fish contains deadly toxins. When eating Puffer fish skin, the victim can experience numbness of the entire tongue and oral cavity, followed by a feeling of dizziness, vomiting, a rapid decrease in heart rate, difficulty breathing, numbness in the limbs and rapid death within within 4 - 24 hours.
What's more frightening is that, the current Puffer fish toxin has no antidote, so if it is accidentally poisoned, it can be considered "untreatable". Due to the dangerous nature of this specialty, in Japan, only skilled and licensed chefs are allowed to process Puffer fish into a Fugu specialty for diners.
2. Frog Darts
The dart frog, native to the Americas, can produce venom that can kill 10 people or even an elephant. The dart frog lives mainly in the forests of Central and South America. Depending on the habitat (mainly forests stretching from Costa Rica to Brazil) this frog has different colors. This poisonous frog has a color change from yellow, strawberry red to sapphire blue, black or a mixture of different colors. Thanks to those strange colors, they warn predators that it is dangerous to touch it. Its name originates from the Native Americans of Central - South America taking their poison to impregnated the tip of the dart, arrow serving the process of hunting animals.
Among the poison dart frogs known for their vibrant colors is the sapphire blue variety. Green dart frogs are never seen underwater by humans because of their very poor swimming ability. They are so due to lack of membrane in the belt of the toes. The yellow-backed frog is one of only four genera of dart frogs. But it contains less toxicity that can only cause pain, mild convulsions and even paralysis in some cases of poisoning.
3.Taipan snakes
The Taipan venomous snake is a snake that lives mainly in Australia and is considered the most feared snake in the world because its venom is 300 times more terrible than that of the cobra. The amount of venom released in a single Taipan bite can kill 100 people or an "army of 250,000 lab rats". Victims bitten by this snake will die within 45 minutes. Fortunately, the Taipan snake is very shy and afraid of humans, it only uses venom to attack in cases of forced self-defense.
Taipans are snakes of the genus Oxyuranus in the nimble family. They are large, fast-moving, highly venomous species endemic to Australasia. There are currently three recognized species, one of which, the coastal taipan, has two subspecies. Taipans are considered some of the deadliest snakes known. Species of this genus are highly neurotoxic with several other toxic components that have multiple effects on the victim. The venom is known to paralyze the victim's nervous system and coagulate the blood, then block the blood vessels and use the clotting factors. Members of this genus are considered among the most venomous.
4.Brazilian Poisonous Spiders
The Brazilian poisonous spider, also known as Phoneutria, has been recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the most dangerous venomous spider among the poisonous spiders and is the main cause of death. human being bitten by a spider. Experiments show that just 0.006 mg of Phoneutria's venom can kill a mouse. In particular, this spider is dangerous in that it can live in any place, in all types of climate and weather conditions, and is ready to attack any creature that threatens its territory.
All Brazilian venomous spiders have brown, gray fur and black spots on the abdomen. These spiders are also quite large with legs about 15 cm long and a body about 5 cm long. These spiders are true nocturnal hunters, so they spend most of their time living, hiding in crevices or under logs and coming out at night to hunt. They eat insects, small reptiles, amphibians, mice and even other small spiders.
5. Stalker scorpion (death scorpion)
There are more than 1000 different species of scorpions in the world, and 25 of them are venomous with high toxicity. In particular, the death scorpion Death Stalker has the strongest venom. Death scorpion is pale yellow, about 10cm long with 2 front claws containing poison. The main food of the death scorpion is insects, snakes, rodents. Even death scorpions eat some other species of scorpion.
The Stalker scorpion is a scorpion that lives mainly in North Africa and the Middle East. Unlike common scorpions, whose bite only causes pain and swelling on the body, the venom of the Stalker scorpion can be deadly. Victims attacked by Stalker scorpions will suffer terrible pain in the body, high fever, unconsciousness and can lead to death if not treated promptly. However, now that people have found a treatment for those bitten by the Stalker scorpion, many victims are lucky to escape death.
