yup, another toxin called batrachtoxin, comes from eating specific beetles, by the frogs. once they are fed from a non-beetle diet they arnt poisonous.
if it were something like a cane toad, they dont need other animals to make thier toxins.
Researchers have determined that a fugu’s tetrodotoxin comes from eating other animals infested with tetrodotoxin-laden bacteria, to which the fish develops insensitivity over time.[10] Whether tetrodotoxin is sequestered from or produced by symbiotic bacteria is still debated.[11] As such, efforts have been made in research and aquaculture to allow farmers to produce safe fugu. Farmers now produce poison-free fugu by keeping the fish away from the bacteria – see § Aquaculture below.[10]
Isn’t that also how fugu gets its poison? I think the pufferfish grown on farms where their diet is regulated aren’t poisonous.
yup, another toxin called batrachtoxin, comes from eating specific beetles, by the frogs. once they are fed from a non-beetle diet they arnt poisonous.
if it were something like a cane toad, they dont need other animals to make thier toxins.
TIL… Thank you, kind stranger, for making me curious enough to look further
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu
Would’ve been funny, if a fish was somehow snacking ants on the regular. 🙃