Posted on 04/02/2023 8:21:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Jesse Donnison and his dog Otto were walking along Blackwattle Bay in Glebe when he spotted an expensive dog toy floating in the water.
But Mr Donnison got more than he bargained for when he picked up the ball, thinking he was going to score a free toy for his dog.
“I just thought it had algae or something like that on it but then a tentacle popped out,” he told NCA NewsWire.
“As soon as that tentacle came out, I knew there was only one creature it could be,” he said of the blue-ringed octopus.
“I dropped it pretty quickly, more than anything I was worried about the dog. Otto tried to get onto the ball immediately.
Blue-ringed octopuses are among the world’s most venomous marine animals, carrying enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes.
Due to their size, their bites are tiny and often painless, with their venom capable of causing respiratory arrest, heart failure, paralysis, blindness and eventually death from suffocation.
Blue-ringed octopus are found across the east coast of Australia and throughout Sydney Harbor.
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I just hope nobody tries to make calamari out of those species.
I loved its appearance in the Crichton book “State of Fear” as an assasination mechanism!
I also loved that the bad guys drove Prius’...:)
Hahahahaha “Deadly Spiders in The Dunny”!
““I just thought it had algae or something like that on it but then a tentacle popped out,””
I bet he said “teentickle”.
Don’t laugh, I killed a Funnel Web in the Dunny with a toilet brush once. Not that far north, Funnel Webs pretty much live around Sidney and south into the bush.
I’d rather be stomped by a moose than deal with your spiders, mate. Although apparently we have your stupid great whites trolling around Boothbay now. This is your fault, somehow!
I’m not from Oz, just lived there for a year. My general rule of thumb is that anything that moves can be dangerous, and anything with “Blue” in it’s name is particularly nasty :) FWIW I used to swim in an area with many Blue Rings, they stay in the seaweed and we stay out.
Maybe it could be an appetizer for filet of Blowfish...
LOL, that laughing you thought you heard from me was totally nervous laughter.
I am a total abject pussy when it comes to spiders. Sigh. It was a childhood thing, when I was seven or so, I was crawling under a road through a drain pipe and got stuck...
Octopus, like spiders, are all venomous, and humans are more sensitive to the venom of some than others.
The Great Barrier Reef also is home to sea snakes, stonefish, (jellyfish-like) Portuguese man o’ war, and cone snails, each of which ranks among the most poisonous creatures on earth.
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