Comment on Poisonous Frogs with Ants in their Pants

rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• boydster@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  TIL… Thank you, kind stranger, for making me curious enough to look further

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu

  Researchers have determined that a fugu’s tetrodotoxin comes from eating other animals infested with tetrodotoxin-laden bacteria, to which the fish develops insensitivity over time.[10] Whether tetrodotoxin is sequestered from or produced by symbiotic bacteria is still debated.[11] As such, efforts have been made in research and aquaculture to allow farmers to produce safe fugu. Farmers now produce poison-free fugu by keeping the fish away from the bacteria – see § Aquaculture below.[10]

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Would’ve been funny, if a fish was somehow snacking ants on the regular. 🙃

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  yup, another toxin called batrachtoxin, comes from eating specific beetles, by the frogs. once they are fed from a non-beetle diet they arnt poisonous.

  if it were something like a cane toad, they dont need other animals to make thier toxins.

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