List of poisonous animals
The hooded pitohui. A neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin found in the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling in those touching the bird.
Poisonous animals
This list is a partial list of animals that are poisonous to humans (and other animals):
Birds
- Pitohui
Poison dart frogs are well known for their brightly colored skin. However it is their brightly colored skin that gives off the warning to predators of their toxicity. - Blue-capped ifrit
- Little shrikethrush
- Spur-winged goose[1] (diet-dependent)
- Common quail (diet-dependent)
Frogs and toads
- American toad
- Asiatic toad
- Cane toad
- Colorado River toad
- Common toad
- Corroboree frog
- European green toad
- Fowler's toad
- Mantella
- Poison dart frog
- Yellow-banded poison dart frog
Salamanders
Most birds dislike the taste of monarch butterflies. This is because they contain the poisons from when they were caterpillars as they were eating their favorite plant, Poisonous milkweed
Fish
- Tetraodontidae (Blowfish, Pufferfish)
- Greenland Shark
- Barracuda (age and diet dependent)
Cephalopods
Insects
See also
- Poisonous amphibians
- Toxic birds
- List of venomous animals
- List of poisonous plants
- List of poisonous fungi
References
- ↑ Bartram, S.; Boland, W. (2001). "Chemistry and ecology of toxic birds". ChemBioChem. 2 (11): 809–811. doi:10.1002/1439-7633(20011105)2:11<809::aid-cbic809>3.0.co;2-c.
- ↑ Enature.com Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine. (Retrieved March 17, 2010.)
- ↑ NOVA episode - Kings of Camouflage
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