Originally published at: The fascinating, deadly pufferfish | Boing Boing
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You know you can trust the info you get from Eizabeth Brainerd.
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So puffin’ cute!
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What curious little creatures. 
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They seem to be chillin under the sea…
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pufferfish are cool!
dolphins are jerks.
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So there are two different families getting mixed up here.
- Diodontidae (porcupinefish) are spiny, and very tough fish, but they don’t have tetrodotoxin.
- Tetraodontidae (puffers proper) usually have tetrodotoxin but not spines.
I mean, they’re closely related and maybe it doesn’t matter much. But I feel like they get confused a lot and it takes away from appreciating the diversity, where they have found different ways of using inflation as a defense.
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Fugu: Now, Without Poison!
Well where is the fun in that?
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Sea russian-roulette.
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The Toad-lickers of the Briny Depths?
Next it will be “Pork Sliders without the taint.”
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That is some Swarzenegger-level devastation.
I don’t fancy my chances at eating either.
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Poison, poison, tasty fish!
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We used to eat those in NY - tiny amount of meat on each fish - but dad caught like a hundred.
Chicken of the sea - tough to clean with that skin - mom did that. Good thing she loved us, I guess.
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Poisson sans boisson, c’est poison!
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hon hon hon hon hon
That’s your actual French, that is, for “LOL.”
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