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Good afternoon everyone
on this Wednesday, this year Wednesday's will be creature Wednesday
this Wednesday I will kick it off with the Pufferfish.
The Pufferfish is a
smallish chubby fish that looks quite cute as they bumble along,
flapping their tiny fins. However, get too close and pop it suddenly
inflates into a football covered in sharp, venomous spines.
It can also swallow
huge amounts of water very quickly to blow up its body to several
times its normal size. It can also do the same thing with air, making
its spines which normally lie flat, stick out in all directions.
In Japan the pufferfish
is known as Fugu and are eaten as a delicacy the chefs have been
known to leave a bit of poison in the fish to make the eater feel
dizzy and tingly but if they get it wrong the diner ends up being
rushed to hospital.
Scary facts about the pufferfish. I have seen the live ones in an aquarium in a restaurant. They are just for show and not for eaten as food.
ReplyDeleteThey are fascinating fish. I believe there are different types of them, too. But they all do the blowing up thing. :)
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, we have a local advert for a dentist office that makes use of a pufferfish "off the isle of Bora-Bora"...
ReplyDeleteNancy.......Yes scary indeed
ReplyDeleteRita.........Yes they are fascinating
Chris........Really????????
Yeah- the guy gets hit in the mouth by a thrown horseshoe while camping and swells up "like a pufferfish off the isle of Bora-bora- but then you smile because you're not in Bora-bora, you're just outside of Ft Wayne, and AFDENT is in Ft Wayne..." They do it with cartoony stills, which makes it funny because their "scenery" includes mountains, and trust me there are no mountains "just outside of Fort Wayne"...
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