15 cute animals that could kill you
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Poison dart frog
The charismatic colors might catch your eye, but such pizazz is also nature's way of telling you to stay away. The poison dart frog is among the most poisonous creatures on Earth. Indigenous American Indians used the toxic secretions to poison the tips of blowgun darts.
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Warning "toad licking" can cause someone to halucinate and be very bad for you just like a drug. If you don't believe me just ask Peter on "Family Guy." LOL.
YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF SCARE TACTICS AND MISDIRECTION FROM THE "LIBERAL" MEDIA, AND THAT DARK DEVIL IN THE WHITIE HOUSE!!!
LONG LIVE PALIN!!!!!
SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST PLAIN STUID! GROW UP!
What have all of you got in your Tea?
Dude do us all a favor and just Shut UP!!!
U MUST B AS STUPID AS THE BUSHES N PALINS see what happens when u smoke moose
You sir/ma'am are insane. Step away from the internet.
how the hell does cute animals have 2 do w/ scare tactics?
Animals arent in politics.
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I mean, sure I accept that it's poisonous and it's poison is used on darts. But does that mean it's poison is absorbable through the skin or must it actually get into the body some other way, like in the blood via a dart, or ingestion via eating it.
This whole time I've been putting the story's headline in the "headline" box because, for some unknown reason, I thought it required the story's headline to distinguish which animal the comments were about. I just now realized the Headline is the title you want to give your own comment.
lol!
Thank you for educating my daughter and myself regarding dangerous but cute animals.
Bears hunting humans .... Is that a joke? There are probably more humans hunting bears than the opposite! The person who wrote that article must really hate animals ...
Animals unless provoked don't usually attack humans and even less hunt them!
Alright, look, as much as you want to believe that animals are innocent little lovely people who will never attack unless provoked by the evil greedy human hunters, in reality, bears, especially grizzlies are have been known to hunt people down in the forest. They're just telling you what they're known for when compared with other deadly animals okay.
Everybody already knows that no matter how deadly an animal is, we humans always prove to be even deadlier, however, don't forget that.... More
YEA. i know its poisonous but c'mon? don't you just WONDER what it would taste like?
IMAGESHACK!
oh, a dart frog helped the protagonist in the movie APOCALYPTO..
hes adorable, deadly, though... and the diet thing on how they derive their venom, that amazes me..
he is so adorable!
Poison dart frogs are only poisonous in the wild. This is due to the type of ant that is normally their diet. When kept in captivity, they are completely harmless.
Umm....Really?
Yes, actually, that's true. There are a number of animals whose diets affect their venomous capabilities, as well. For instance, if I'm not mistaken, Japanese scientists are discovering the same phenomenon in captive fugu.
It depends on the species. True, most will not be lethal in captivity and a few others will be entirely harmless, but some will still be quite poisonous and necessitate the use of gloves when handling. Their genetics code for very strong poisonous excretions in in the skin, their bodies will still do as much as possible with what they're given. So, basically their bodies still try do make those lethal compounds, but they can't do it as well as in the wild.
I <3 frogs, they're.... More
I have worked with the little cuties in the zoo and handled them- the only ones we didn't handle were newcomers and we didn't know how long they had been away from their diet in the wild- especially ones taken from poachers. The sad part is, we can't just reintroduce them to an area to repopulate it unless their toxic producing food is present, otherwise predators will catch on and the whole population will disappear
I've been to a shop that sells the little cuties, and they make sure that the ones they sell in captivity have been breed that way for a long time so they have no access to the compound they need. That way they can't hurt you. They're also very docile, and tend to just sit around in your hand if you hold them.
My family had 5 of them. Not poisonous if they were captive breed.
HOWEVER. You still are not supposed to touch them. The oil from YOUR skin can kill them. They are a display pet.