Poisonous animals

enormous physical strength, powerful fangs and razor-sharp teeth - is not the only weapon used in the animal world. Thousands of animals used highly toxic poisons to attack or defend. I present to you the top 10 most venomous creatures in the world. 1. Kubomeduza

The main prize of our stamp goes jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri), which received this name because of its cubic form. Over the past 60 years, this handsome claimed about 6000 lives. Its venom is the most deadly in the world, the toxins affect the heart, nervous system and cells kozhi.

And, to make matters worse, all of this is accompanied by a hellish pain that the victims included in a state of shock and either drown or die of heart failure.
If you just treat the wound with vinegar or acetic acid, the victim has a chance, but as a rule, not the vinegar in the water to find;)
Jellyfish can be found in the marine waters of Asia and Australia. 2. The King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) 35,751,018

King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is the longest venomous snake in the world, reaching 5 to 6 meters in length. Ophiophagus, literally translated as "snake-eater" as it eats other snakes. One single bite of this deadly snake can easily kill a human. It can kill even adult Asian Elephant within 3 hours if the animal is bitten in a vulnerable area such as the trunk.
Among the representatives of snakes there are more toxic than the King Cobra, but it is able to identify the poison is much more than others. For example, 5 times more than the Black Mamba.
King Cobra is common in the dense mountain forests of South and Southeast Asia. 3. Scorpio Leyurus kvinkestriatus

Contrary to popular belief, the majority of scorpions are relatively harmless to humans as stings has only local effects (pain, anemia, swelling). However, Leyrusy - a very dangerous type of scorpion because its poison - a powerful cocktail of neurotoxins which causes an intense and unbearable pain, then fever, followed by coma, convulsions, paralysis and death.
Leyrusy common in North Africa and the Middle East. 4. Taipan or inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus) 85,026,762

Just one bite Taipan contains enough venom to kill 100 human adults or an army of 250,000 mice. It is extremely neurotoxic venom - at least 200-400 times more poisonous than cobra venom usual. In just 45 minutes after the bite of an adult death can occur. But fortunately, there is an antidote, besides this snake is very timid and immediately crawls away at the slightest danger.
It lives in Australia. 5. Poisonous dart frogs or lyagushki

If you ever manage to visit the rainy forests of Central and South America, never touch the beautiful little frogs - they can be extremely poisonous. For example, the size of Staphylococcus dart frogs - only 5 cm, and the poison it is enough to kill 10 adult humans.
In the old days, the local tribes used the poison of these frogs to lubricate tips of their arrows. 6. Blue ringed octopus (Octopus Australian) 50,088,663

Blue ringed octopus is small, the size of a golf ball, but extremely poisonous creatures that live in the waters around Australia and slightly to the north, in the direction of Japan. The blue-ringed octopus is usually lighter in color, with dark brown bands on its eight legs and body, with blue circles, added on top of dark brown groups. When the octopus is disturbed or removed from the water, it gets dark, and the rings are shiny and make electric blue, and this color change gives the animal its nazvanie.

His poison strong enough to kill a person. In fact, the octopus carries enough poison to kill 26 adult humans within a couple of minutes, and there is no antidote. If you do not take action and do not start treatment, the person begins to feel numbness, difficulty of speech, vision, breathing problems, then there is a complete paralysis and death due to heart failure and lack of oxygen. 7. The Brazilian Wandering Spider (Phoneutria) or banana pauk

This abomination hit the Guinness Book of Records 2007 for blame in the greatest number of human deaths caused by a spider bite. Importantly, these spiders are dangerous not only to their poison, but also their behavior: they do not sit still and do not weave the web, they wander through the land, hiding in buildings, clothing, shoes, cars, anywhere; which significantly increases the risk of suddenly meet them and be bitten. 8. Fish Bowl or Fugu

Fish Ball - the second most poisonous vertebrates on earth (first - golden dart frogs of 5). Meat certain subspecies, such as Fugu - a delicacy in Japan and Korea, but the problem is that the surface of the fish and some of its agencies - are highly poisonous. Poison puffer causes paralysis, which occurs as a result of suffocation and death from lack of oxygen.
Therefore, to prepare this fish in Japan is permitted only licensed chefs. 9. Marble snail-konus

In appearance, marble cone snail looks beautiful and very cute, but it can be just as deadly as any other animal on this list. Drop her venom capable of killing 20 people. Symptoms of a bite: severe pain, swelling, numbness, in severe cases, paralysis and respiratory failure. Antidotes not suschestvuet.

Nevertheless, for the time were about 30 cases of human deaths from the poison of snails, which are not very many, and compared with other members of our list. 10. Fish kamen

Perhaps fish stone will never win a beauty contest, but it will definitely get the prize "The most poisonous fish." The venom causes such excruciating pain that in search of salvation from suffering, victims are willing to amputation of the affected places. It is believed that the fish bite-stone provokes pain of strongest known to man. The pain is accompanied by shock, paralysis, and the withering away tkani.

If you do not get the emergency medical care, the outcome can be fatal.
Fish-stone stores its toxins in gruesome spines that are designed to protect against predators.
It is widespread in the tropical waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, from the Red Sea to the Great Barrier Reef.

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