List of poisonous animals
The following is a list of poisonous animals. Poisonous animals, which infect their victims when contact is made, differ from venomous animals, which inject their toxins into their prey.
The hooded pitohui. A neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin found in the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling in those touching the bird.
Poisonous animals
This list is a partial list of animals that are poisonous to humans (and other animals), or put another way, their flesh is toxic if consumed, or in some cases touched:
Birds
- Pitohui
- Blue-capped ifrit
- Shrikethrushes
- Spur-winged goose[1] (diet-dependent)
- Common quail (diet-dependent)
Snakes
- Rhabdophis keelback snakes
- Garter snake (diet-dependent, when feeding on Pacific newts)[2]
Frogs and toads
- American toad
- Asiatic toad
- Cane toad
- Colorado River toad
- Common toad
- Corroboree frog
- European green toad
- Fowler's toad
- Mantella
- Poison dart frog
Poison dart frogs are well known for their brightly colored skin, which serves as a warning to predators of their toxicity.
Salamanders
Most birds dislike the taste of monarch butterflies. This is because they contain the poisons from when they were caterpillars as they were eating their favorite plant, Poisonous milkweed
Fish
- Tetraodontidae (Blowfish, Pufferfish)
- Greenland shark
- Barracuda (age and diet dependent)
Insects
- Blister beetle
- Diamphidia
- Cinnabar moth
- Certain tiger moths (Erebidae)
- Birdwings
- Milkweed butterflies (include Monarch butterfly)
- Battus (butterfly)
See also
References
- Bartram, S.; Boland, W. (2001). "Chemistry and ecology of toxic birds". ChemBioChem. 2 (11): 809–811. doi:10.1002/1439-7633(20011105)2:11<809::aid-cbic809>3.0.co;2-c. PMID 11948866.
- Williams, Becky L.; Brodie Jr., Edmund D.; Brodie III, Edmund D. (2004). "A resistant predator and its toxic prey: persistence of newt toxin leads to poisonous (not venomous) snakes". Journal of Chemical Ecology. 30 (10): 1901–1919. doi:10.1023/B:JOEC.0000045585.77875.09. PMID 15609827.
- Enature.com Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved March 17, 2010.)
- NOVA episode - Kings of Camouflage
- "Rhodactis Mushroom Corals Are Surprisingly Deadly". 2018-04-11.
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