He was shot with a tender octopus, but it was one of the most toxic creatures in the world – 01/29/2019

It was not the Paul Octopus, the mollusk consulted to know in advance the results of every match in South Africa in 2010, what a tourist found on the beaches of Darwin, at Australia. The little octopus that he found on the coast, he seemed sympathetic, with blue circles in his tentacles and was away from the water.

When he met this specimen, a tender idea came to him: take it in the sand, put it in the palm of his hand and send it back to the sea. And he recorded it in a video that quickly circulated under the title "What a beautiful octopus" of the Australian social network Tik-Tok.

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Until a user named Alan saw him and was horrified. "Normally, I'm a calm person, but this video gave me a tachycardia." what it does? It's like you're holding death in your hands, "wrote Alan.

The mollusc is undoubtedly beautiful, but it is not beautiful what it hides inside. The tourist who was crossing Darwin picked up an octopus like Hapalochlaena, also called by its characteristics blue rings octopus.

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Four subspecies of this mollusc are known and all carry a poison in the body that kills about 26 humans in a few minutes. And the worst: there is still no antidote to fight against its toxicity.

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The blue rings octopus it is the fourth most toxic species in the world. It bites if you feel attacked and when it happens, there is no room for maneuver.

Its saliva is the soil of the bacterium that produces huge amounts of tetrodotoxin, a substance that causes progressive paralysis of all muscles. When he reaches the lungs, he causes death by asphyxiation in a few seconds.

Everything indicates that Darwin's tourist survived because he did not bite him. Moreover, he never knew what danger he was exposed to.

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