Precious Pufferfish
If you think the octopus is the only animal in the ocean that can transform, think again. There are other amazingly deceptive sea creatures. At first glance, they are slow-moving, gentle and beautiful. But beware. When threatened, these fishes can transform themselves into weapons and turn into one of the deadliest creatures in the world. What are we talking about? Pufferfish, of course. Want to find out more about them, well keep reading.
Diet
The puffer fish is an omnivore so the diet of a puffer fish includes mostly invertebrates ( an animal without a backbone) and algae. Large puffer fish will even crack open clams, mussels, and shellfish with their hard beaks. Poisonous puffers are believed to synthesize their deadly toxin from the bacteria in the animals they eat.
Life and Reproduction
Although some baby puffer fish cannot be seen without a magnifying glass, their body shape resembles those of the adult animals. The average lifespan of the puffer fish is around ten years. There are more than 120 species of puffer fish which live mostly in the warm waters of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans, with only 30 species that are living in the freshwater. Some species move from marine to brackish or fresh water during the breeding season. Did you know: After leaving the egg, young puffer fish swim toward the reef’s community.
Escape Artist
Pufferfish can inflate into a ball shape to evade predators. Also known as blowfish, these clumsy swimmers fill their elastic stomachs with huge amounts of water (and sometimes air) and blow themselves up to several times their normal size.
Fun facts
Almost all species of puffer fish contain a toxin (called tetrodotoxin) that can be 1200 times stronger than poison. One puffer fish contains enough toxin to kill 30 adult men. The toxin is not located in all parts of the puffer fish, and certain cultures prepare puffer fish as a delicacy. Also, did you know that about 100 diners die each year after eating puffer fish?
Pufferfish are amazing creatures and have plenty of tricks up their sleeves, other than puffing up to scare away predators. To most people, they are some of the most fascinating creatures on this planet. They can do many other cool tricks like turn sand into symmetrical artwork, but unfortunately the current will still wash away its beautiful artwork in minutes. Now I hope you love these amazing creatures as much as I do.
Gabe,
Super cool video! I did not know a pufferfish could do this in the sand.
From,
Nevaeh
Gabe,
Your video is so cool! The pufferfish made a cool design.
From,
Wyatt
i read about yours and i learned that one puffer fish contains enough toxin to kill 30 adult men
Gabe,
I love this video and article!
The pufferfish’s creation was so beautiful.
Nice job putting this together.
From,
Austin
Gabe super cool video! The puffer fish made such a cool design on the sand.
this is great i never knew they usethere fins for tools
from leo
Gabe,
The video was really good I didn’t know that a puffer fish could do that really nice and cool art! it was amazing.
From,
Ingrid
This is very interesting that a puffer fish is able to create a mathematical master piece. I say you picked a great topic.
This is a good video because its cool to know how puffer fish look without blowing up in spikes its also cool how they make structures from shells.
Also you are very good at making a image in the mind.