10 Most Poisonous Animals in the World
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1. Box
Jellyfish
The top prize for The
World Most
Venomous Animal,would go to the Box
Jellyfish.
It has caused at
least 5,567
recorded deaths since 1954.
Their venom is among
the most
deadly in the world. Its toxins attack
the
heart, nervous system, and skin cells.
And the
worst part of it is that jelly box venom
is so
overpoweringly painful, that human
victims go in
shock, drown or die of heart failure
before even
reaching shore. Survivors experience
pain weeks
after the contact with box jellies..
You have virtually no
chance to
survive the venomous sting, unless
treated
immediately. After a sting, vinegar
should be
applied for a minimum of 30 seconds.
Vinegar has
acetic acid, which disables the box
jellys
nematocysts that have not yet discharged
into
the bloodstream (though it will not
alleviate
the pain). Wearing panty hose while
swimming is
also a good prevention measure since it
can
prevent jellies from being able to harm
your
legs.
Jelly box can be
found in the
waters around Asia and Australia .
2. King Cobra
The King Cobra
(Ophiophagus hannah) is the worlds
longest
venomous snake - growing up to 56 m
(18.5 ft) in
length.
Ophiophagus,
literally means
snake-eater as it eats other snakes..
One single
bite of this deadly snake can easily
kill a
human.
This snake is even
capable of
killing a full-grown Asian Elephant
within 3
hours if the larger animal is bitten in a
vulnerable area such as the trunk.
Its venom is not as
toxic as
other venomous snakes, but King Cobra is
capable
of injecting 5 times more venom than
black mamba
and can result in mortality up to 5
times faster
than that of the black mamba. It is
quite
widespread, ranging across South and
South-east
Asia , living in dense highland forests.
3. Marbled Cone
Snail
This little beautiful
looking
Marbled Cone snail can be as
deadly as
any other animal on this list.
One drop of its venom
is so
powerful that it can kill more than 20
humans.
If you ever happen to
be in warm
salt water environment (where these
snails are
often found) and see it, dont even think
of
picking it up.
Of course, the true
purpose of
its venom is to catch its prey.
Symptoms of a cone
snail sting
can start immediately or can be delayed
in onset
for days.
It results in intense
pain,
swelling, numbness and tingling. Severe
cases
involve muscle paralysis, vision changes
and
breathing failure.
There is no
antivenom. However,
only about 30 human deaths have been
recorded
from cone snail envenomation.
4. Blue-Ringed
Octopus
The Blue-Ringed
Octopus
is very small, only the size of a golf
ball, but
its venom is so powerful that can kill a
human.
Actually it carries enough poison to
kill 26
adult humans within minutes, and there
is no
antidote. They are currently recognized
as one
of the worlds most venomous animals.
Its painless bite may
seem
harmless, but the deadly neurotoxins
begin
working immediately resulting in
muscular
weakness, numbness, followed by a
cessation and
breathing and ultimately death.
They can be found in
tide pools
in the Pacific Ocean, from Japan to
Australia .
5. Death Stalker
Scorpion
Contrarily to the
popular belief
most of the scorpions are relatively
harmless to
humans as stings produce only local
effects
(pain, numbness or swelling). However,
the
Death Starker Scorpion is highly
dangerous species because its venom is a
powerful cocktail of neurotoxins which
causes an
intense and unbearable pain, then fever,
followed by coma, convulsions, paralysis
and
death. Fortunately, while a sting from
this
scorpion is extremely painful, it would
be
unlikely to kill a healthy, adult human.
Young
children, the old, or infirm (with a
heart
condition) are at the biggest risk.
Death stalker
scorpions are
spread in North Africa and Middle East .
6. Stonefish
Maybe Stonefish
would
never win a beauty contest, but it would
definitely win the top prize for being
The World
Most Venomous Fish.
Its venom causes such
a severe
pain that the victims of its sting want
the
affected limb to be amputated. It is
described
as the worst pain known to man.
It is accompanied
with
possible shock, paralysis, and tissue
death. If
not given medical attention within a
couple of
hours It can be fatal to humans.
Stonefish stores its
toxins in
gruesome-looking spines that are
designed to
hurt would-be predators.
Stonefish mostly live
above the
tropic of Capricorn, often found in the
shallow
tropical marine waters of the Pacific
and Indian
oceans,
ranging from the Red
Sea to the
Queensland Great Barrier Reef.
7. The Brazilian
wandering
spider
The Brazilian
Wandering
Spider (Phoneutria) or banana spider
appears
in the Guinness Book of World Records
2007
for the most venomous
spider and
is the spider responsible for most human
deaths.
This spider is
believed to have
the most potent neurotoxic venom of any
living
spider. Only 0.006mg (0.00000021oz) is
sufficient to kill a mouse.
They are also so
dangerous
because of their wandering nature.
They often hide
during daytime
in highly populated areas inside houses,
clothes, boots, and cars.
Its venomous bite
causes not
only intense pain, the venom of the
spider can
also cause priapism - uncomfortable
erections
lasting for many
hours that lead
to impotence.
8. Inland
Taipan
The prize for The
Worlds Most
Venomous Snake goes to the Inland
Taipan
of Australia .
Just a single bite
from this
snake contains enough venom to kill 100
human
adults or an army of 250,000 mice.
Its venom is at least
200 - 400
times more toxic than a common cobra.
The Inland Taiwans
extremely
neurotoxic venom can kill an adult human
in as
little as 45 minutes.
Fortunately this
snake is very
shy and there have been no documented
human
fatalities (all known bites were treated
with
antivenin).
9. Poison Dart
Frog
If you ever happen to
be running
through the rain forests somewhere in
Central or
South America ,
do not ever pick up
beautiful
and colorful frogs - it can be the Poison
Dart Frog.
This frog is probably
the most
poisonous animal on earth.
The 2 inch long (5cm)
golden
poison dart frog has enough venom to
kill 10
adult humans or 20,000 mice.
Only 2 micrograms of
this lethal
toxin (the amount that fits on the head
of a
pin) is capable of killing a human or
other
large mammal.
They are called dart
frogs
because indigenous Amerindians use of
their
toxic secretions to poison the tips of
their
blow-darts..
Poison dart frogs
keep their
poison in their skins and will sicken or
kill
anybody who touches or eats it.
10. Puffer
Fish
Puffer Fish
are the
second most poisonous vertebrate on
earth (the
first one is golden dart Frog).
The meat of some
species is a
delicacy in both Japan (as fugu)
and
Korea (as bok-uh) but the problem
is that
the skin and certain
organs of many puffer
fish are
very poisonous to humans.
This puffy fish
produce rapid
and violent death..Puffers poisoning
causes
deadening of the tongue and lips,
dizziness,
vomiting, rapid heart rate, difficulty
breathing, and muscle paralysis. Victims
die
from suffocation as diaphragm muscles
are
paralyzed.
Most of the victims
die after
four to 24 hours.
There is no known
antidote, Most
deaths from fugu happen when untrained
people
catch and prepare the fish.
Statistics show that
there were
20 to 44 incidents of fugu
poisoning per
year between 1996 and 2006 in all of
Japan
and up to six
incidents per year
led to death.
Since Fugus poison
can cause
near instantaneous death, only licensed
chefs
are allowed to prepare it.
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