TikTok: He played with an octopus and cried for three hours when he found out it was one of the most dangerous animals in the world | the Chronicle

A woman who was visiting Bali, Indonesia on vacation and shared a video on TikTok as long ase he was holding a blue-ringed octopus in his hands, not knowing it was a creature capable of killing her in minutes.

The footage in which the young woman is seen holding a striking little octopus in her hands quickly went viral.

The “ticker” Kaylinmarie21 released the clip last Monday, recorded on a beach on the island of Bali, and so far it has already con 5.6 million views.

The surprise arose when the young woman began to investigate this marine invertebrate, and discovered that sIt was a blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena), which, despite its small size, it has a powerful poison to kill 26 adults in a matter of minutes.

Their bites are small and people often don’t feel them, so many victims do not realize they have been poisoned until they start to have paralysis or breathing problems, and it is too late to act. So far there is no antidote to this poison.

The video includes the caption: “Go to Bali and unwittingly hold on to one of the most dangerous animals “, and add: “I called my father crying 3 hours later”. Fortunately, she managed to escape unscathed.

On the comments, He claimed that on the same day he was playing with two of these octopuses for about 20 minutes. In response, some users have warned you to watch out for colorful species because “the brighter the animal, the more dangerous it is.”

The video of the young woman playing with the octopus