10 small but extremely dangerous animals
Usually we will panic when we see large sized snakes or spiders, thinking that our instincts are "bigger - more dangerous". In fact, however, perhaps we should be wary of small animals in the list below. These animals are small in size, but they can kill you in minutes with extremely dangerous toxins.
10. Snake Coral
Coral snakes often live in the desert of Sonoran, Mexico and South America. They have relatives of cobra, but have a very different shape. They have quite colorful colors and very small sizes, usually only about 50cm long. Although Coral snakes rarely attack, they often use venom to defend themselves, but the snake's venom can paralyze your central nervous system for a few minutes.
9. Blue Ringed Octopus
The name of this octopus is based on their physical characteristics, usually yellow or brown, but when feared, their bodies will float blue spots and rings. Although it looks pretty, and is only a few centimeters in size, a few drops of their venom can kill nearly 30 adults. They often live in the waters around Australia.
8. Brazilian spider
This spider does not use silk and spider webs to catch prey, but they often actively hunt with their deadly venom. Since 2007, this Brazilian spider has been recognized as the most powerful venom spider in the world, and the culprit of the most deadly cases, most victims only survived 1 hour after being bitten.
7. Deathstalker scorpion
This scorpion species can easily be found in African and Asian deserts. When it comes to scorpions in general, the smaller the size, the stronger the venom is, because they cannot protect themselves with the pair but rely on venom. The Deathstalker scorpion is only about 5cm long, and they are considered the most unique scorpion in the world. Their toxins will cause you pain, convulsions, paralysis and fever, which will lead to death.
6. Ong Tarantula
This special species of bee lives in forests in North America. Although only about 5cm long, but Tarantula bees can kill the spiders many times larger. They often kill the spider with clever venom and tactics, then lay eggs in the spider, the larvae will eat the spider and live for 35 days. Although Tarantula bees do not attack humans, their venom is ranked second in terms of pain.
5. Japanese honey bees
Giant honey bees in Japan are larger than ordinary honey bees, but they are only 5cm to 8cm in size. A sting of them can paralyze the nervous system, and attack the tissue around the injection causing extreme pain. More specifically, they can be injected multiple times and with a flying speed of up to 40km / h they are real assassins. Each year about 40 people in Japan die from the bee's venom.
4. Frog darts
This is one of the most colorful animals in nature, helping them to warn and ward off enemies. This frog species is only about 5cm long and is usually green, red and yellow, in which yellow dart frogs are the most unique species. The poison in a frog darts gold enough to kill 10 adult men. Tribes often take poison in this frog's skin and impregnate it into darts, so they are named darts frogs.
3. Cone snail
With the ability to create over 100 different types of toxins, cones are one of the most special creatures on Earth. They often live on the seabed, hide in the sand and wait for their prey to pass through, when they release the hook and inject poison into the prey. The complex group of toxins used by this snail is called conotoxins, the world's most powerful toxin, and an injection is enough to paralyze all muscles and lead to death.
2. Ants Harvester
The antidote of an Harvester is not enough to affect us, but their danger lies in quantity. When an antagonist Harvester bites you, the bite will leave the smell of pheromone and give a warning signal to all the other ants around it. They will attack the victim and in a great amount, they are truly the terror of any kind of big thing. Bad victims can die from allergies to toxins or anaphylactic shock.
1. Jellyfish Irukandji
Irukandji jellyfish is only about 2cm long, although they are the most powerful poisonous animals on the planet. Irukandji's poison is 100 times stronger than a cobra, 1000 times more than a Tarantula bee. After being bitten, symptoms of vomiting, headache, hypertension and heart rate will occur within minutes and the victim will inevitably die. However, the poison of this jellyfish can be used to prepare anti-venom and impotence curing serum.
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