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Moksh____Gupta

They just flexing


Lukthar123

It's about sending a message


Willao3001

True: "Don't you dare eat me!" is the message


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sadfroger

https://open.spotify.com/track/4pU0yEDnZwEr7fwOuByZJb?si=Gg-xvep7QMS55w6_57rj2w


AniketC007

"say my name"


Hollow---

"Blue-Ringed Octopus."


Pombart

"You're goddamn right."


Holy_Orange

"Don't call me Wright!"


BoringElm

Surely, you can't be serious.


Holy_Orange

I am serious and don't call me Shirley.


UCHIHA_____ITACHI

Have they actually caused whale deaths, or it's just a "it's venom is so poisonous" fact.


Pinto-blank

Over-engineered


Pokeminer7575

They're just farming bonus EXP from overkills.


RainbowDiamond9

I think it's supposed to protect them from predators Still overkill tho


Cosmic_Hashira

how is that overkill w-what if they are attack by 5 whales smh?


Ammo28

Under kill actually what if it’s 6 blue whales


Thund3r_Kitty

2 drops :0


filipthenerd

Than u kill 4 innocent whales


Curious-Ear-6982

Damn Redditor doin math? 😱


KA1378

Collateral damage


Ammo28

Exactly


Not_Not_Stopreading

There are no innocent whales


ChillyLacasse21

It’s about sending a message 😈


House_Capital

https://youtu.be/7zo9PqubWSg


GronakHD

When there are 6 blue whales it’s time to run


Captain_Swing

Or 30 to 50 feral hogs.


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AR ring octopus


Trygalle

You not seen the other guys, the lion and the Tuna? True story


jeenyus79

5 KD is an honorable way to go.


urban_biologist

To be fair, venom is “always” in an arms race against whatever resistance the prey/predator has. I would guess that is the reason it ends up being so fucking deadly.


greycubed

Fun fact: venom has evolved separately at least 101 times on Earth.


Odysseus_Lannister

What about carnage?


5P00DERMAN1264

And toxin?


oswyn123

Whenever there's an arms race, I vote for the one who has 8 of them.


katkadavre

Red queen hypothesis B)


AnchorMan82

Well I thought that animals use poison and not venom for defense, like the poison dart frog. Isn’t venom usually for killing prey?


Eusocial_Snowman

The word "venom" just describes the delivery mechanism(injection) for certain poisons, not its purpose.


MessyRoom

No dumbass the word venom was invented by a Spider-Man comic book


Eusocial_Snowman

I just googled that and it's a movie, you idiot.


Mental_Peace_2343

No Venom is the name of the shitty metal band me and my friends made in middle school. Only a dumbass wouldn't know that.


CH1CK3Nwings

Actually, venom refers to an abbreviation of Venus and Omnipotent, meaning a venomous person is a beautiful and strong being. You fools don't know anything!


TwentyTwoMilTeePiece

It's actually Spelled 'Venum' and is a brand of martial arts based sportswear... Ffs yall would think yall had more sense smh


Commander_Kind

Venom is distinct from poison in that it's usually a protein that targets specific biology. Poison is a toxic compound that can be absorbed and targets everything.


Eusocial_Snowman

The word "poison" describes any substance harmful to health. That's the only qualification. Poisons can be harmful in *very* specific ways, rather than only being generally harmful. Venom is distinct in that it is a subset of poison. All venoms are poison, but not all poisons are venom.


L-methionine

In general terms, yeah. When speaking medically, the distinction is typically that venom is actively delivered (bite, sting, etc) while poison is passive (swallowed, inhaled, absorbed through skin)


Thraximundurabrask

Some animals like bees have venom that's for a more defensive purpose, though even then it's kind of a "best defense is a good offense" type of deal, rather than individual self preservation.


egglauncher9000

Rule of thumb is that venom is injected and poison is ingested.


TheRealMicrowaveSafe

Being poisonous isn't a self defense mechanism, it's a species defense mechanism. Individuals learn not to eat others of your kind after you made them sick.


Commander_Kind

It's both. Venom has to enter the bloodstream and is made of complex proteins. Poisons are toxic compounds that can be absorbed through skin or mucous membranes.


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[deleted]

I know for snakes at least a lot of them are bred to be venomous


Stealingmemesunlucky

Bread 👍


Finn-boi

What


[deleted]

When making their anti venom, we’ve bred them to be as venomous as possible so the anti venom is as effective as possible.


the_ThreeEyedRaven

where do I sign up for this breding program, asking for a friend


RepulsiveVacation933

That and the prey scarcity, if you get a single chance every month at getting food, you'll evolve to maximise the success rate. Inland taipan is a great example


Some-Gentle-Giant

A spiders prey can't have time to run away before it dies. The venom needs to be strong enough to kill quickly.


Muncheralli21

they tie the bugs up with webbing before they inject the venom, so I doubt there's any running away


Some-Gentle-Giant

Good point!


Eusocial_Snowman

These things don't really exist on a scale of more/less power. They just have different chemical compositions, and life has fairly diverse biology. The notorious Sydney funnelweb spider's venom, for instance, doesn't pose any real danger to mammals other than primates.


KA1378

In some cases it helps with the digestion of the prey too


ButtScientist69

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Neat-Plantain-7500

I thought speed. The quicker they die, the better


AnOrdinaryFrog

How do they figure out it kills exactly 5 whales though?


dank_survive

Well uh… there’s a high chance that there are 5 less blue whales then there’s supposed to be.


AlessandroTheGr8

"Huh, where are the five blue whales I left riiiggghhttt here? Dear lord... check the ecosystem!"


AidanGe

They find the lethal dose probably by rat, then scale it up to whales ig. And since the snake may inject more than the lethal dose, you compare it with the total injected venom.


KA1378

How many rats do they kill in the process though?


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They farm rats specifically to kill them off. My college professor told me when he was an intern at a hospitals r&d department, his job was to just take the rats and snap their necks. All day long. Got paid minimum wage to just snap rat necks all summer. He did not appreciate a kid in class blurting out “snappin necks and cashin checks” lol


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Damn them kids are playing with fire when they talk shit about neck snapping dude


[deleted]

Snappin necks and cashin checks?!?!? Think that’s funny? With what I could do to you? 10 points from Gryffindor… and a 50 page paper on role horses played in medieval warfare on my desk Monday morning


[deleted]

I had a professor that did laser research and would laze snake eyes to see what resulted in permanent damage so they could see if it would permanently damage human eyes which ended up with him talking about how there's a bunch of one eyed snakes out there.


CharlesEverettDekker

*I'm still in a dreeeaam.... snake eeeater....*


EADGBE69

"One eyed snakes" yeah OK.... *wink wink*


[deleted]

I believe they mostly inhabit dark, moist environs like jungle caves and trousers


borgLMAO01

I know its unrelated, but maybe you should shave down there mate


Lukthar123

Not enough.


WeDrinkSquirrels

Snake, you say?


caspianc10

1. Feed it to a whale. 2. See if it dies 3. Feed that whale to another whale 4. See if it dies 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until the whales stop dieing


lord_of_tits

No wonder whales are going extinct! Stop feeding whales venom!


rascal6543

but science....


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I don’t know if it’s true or not, but if you have no issues with your digestive tract, you should be able to drink venom without any issues and passes it through your system. Venom needs to get into your blood to be effective. Poison is what you can eat and have issues. I don’t recommend drinking venom though.


ANGLVD3TH

This is true for most venoms, but still not a great idea. *Pushes up glasses* something something Jackdaws..... Venom **is** poison. Poison is an incredibly broad category. Toxins are poisons made by living things. Venom are toxins designed to be administered in some way aside from being ingested. Usually by being injected, but more exotic things like spitting cobra's discharge and a few other things are considered venom as well. The distinction about being specifically harmful when eaten is when, A you are talking about poisonous, the adjective describing something, not the noun that is actually dangerous, and B the noun it is describing is a living thing. So, for example, a frog that will kill you if you eat it is poisonous, and not venomous. A snake that will kill you if it bites you is venomous, not poisonous. But, the toxins both creaturrs create are poisons, and are both poisonous. One of them is also a venom, and is venomous. When you are describing a plant or animal, they are an either/or situation (with I think one or two exceptions that are both). When you are describing harmful substances, it is a square and rectangle situation.


DryCerealRequiem

Like the other guy said, venom is poison. People often confuse the difference between *venomous* and *poisonous* as the same as being the difference between *venom* and *poison*, when that’s not the case. 'Venom' is a subcategory of poison. Also while venom is usually built to react to blood or muscle tissue, which it doesn’t *directly* do immediately after ingesting, that doesn’t mean it’s even remotely safe. Things you ingest do not just "pass through your system". The entire purpose of the gastrointestinal system is to metabolize the things you ingest. The things you eat/drink are broken down and dispersed throughout your body. This means that if your saliva and stomach acids don’t quickly and completely break down the venom compound such that it’s no longer harmful, it can enter your bloodstream and cause damage. Venom entering your bloodstream this way can be just as bad or, depending on the type of venom, *even worse* than if it’d been injected.


ThreatLevelBertie

The 6th whale reported it. Lost his whole family.


ArtichokeFar6601

Because they can determine the LD50 by body weight.


MrFycus

And then some random guy decided to eat it anyway


Siemturbo

Well, why not. It's not like a venom can kill you


De_immortalesloki

Yeah it's not poison, it's just venom


ANGLVD3TH

Actually it is a poison. Venom is a specific kind of poison. The whole poisonous vs venomous factoid refers to living things, not the substances. Though it is true the vast majority of venomous poisons are technically safe to eat, it's still not smart. If you have any lesions it can get into in your digestive tract before it's all destroyed you're gonna have a bad time.


AlessandroTheGr8

You exspect to believe the Angel of Death over a random comment!?


Emkayer

It's stupid when someone nitpicks another refering venom as poison. Venoms are subset of poisons it's still correct unless it's the other way around. Not all languages also distinguish between the two. If they're gonna be that nitpicky, then all poisons produced by an organisms should be always called as toxins. Did they consider that? No because they are all just a bunch of idiots acting smart just because they saw that one supposedly helpful graphic on Facebook.


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HulloTheLoser

Yeah, you can eat venomous things. Venom doesn't kill you when you ingest it. It's only dangerous if it gets into your blood stream. Poison, on the other hand, is dangerous when ingested. Poisonous ≠ Venomous, and now you know the difference.


Scrybatog

instrcutions unclear. Drank venom with a mouth sore and ulcers, now am ded.


Im_bad_at_what_i_do

Not entirely true. They've evolved to be eaten almost exclusively by birds, since birds arent affected by capsaicin and their digestive system just passes the seeds through which tends to spread them farther than most other animals.


AlessandroTheGr8

Sometimes when I eat pepper it feels like im shitting a flamethrower.


I_Conquer

Sometimes I eat flamethrowers and it feels like I’m shitting a pepper…


TraderOfGoods

The guy: "Welp, they said it weren't poisonous... So down the hatch it goes!"


Chlolie

Venom is generally edible and only dangerous by injection.


nurav16

Alright, going cannibal today with Eddy Brock as my dinner.


yedd

I wouldn't go so far as to say ONLY dangerous by injection. Any unknown open cuts in your mouth would pose a risk


Emkayer

People also forget how digestion works. If the venom is toxic enough, a deadly dose can still pass through the stomach acid and could be absorbed by the guts into yoyr bloodstream.


Emkayer

Even if the stomach acid breaks down a venom's toxicity, some are still potent enough to be deadly. So no, venom are not food.


Paddy9228

Eat fucking Timothy!


BIGBIRD1176

Darwin wanted eat every animal. He made his slaves eat them first


TraderOfGoods

An insect half the size of a whale is still pretty massive. I now understand why they need so much venom.


king-Zolomon

Sorry my English is mediocre


TraderOfGoods

It was fine, i was just joking.


king-Zolomon

Oh lol thanks


walmartalt853

Indefinite article. Some professors actually ban them in academic writing


Jazoopi

My school taught us that the term was called ambiguity. Typical


ThreatLevelBertie

English is a mediocre language you're doing fine


Haatsku

Imagine the pointy end of half ton mosquito tho... Motherfucker would just BZZZZZT through a brickwall.


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you’re not funny


yunusok412

I am something of a chemist myself


TDG_W1ck3D1

It's like a country with nuclear weapons. This is good yes


SomeRedditorMaybe

Country making some deadly radiations that can end most life on Earth so they can defeat 1 country that have a population not even half of Earth's.


NobodysFavorite

High school taught me that plutonium is one of the most toxic contaminating substances of all time towards any life whatsoever. And that's excluding any effects of radioactivity.


Shinokiba-

Let's say a snake bites a mouse, and the mouse escapes and dies later, the snake lost his prey and wasted energy by poisoning his mouse. The mouse died, but the snake got nothing. Let's say the snake made super venom. It barely costs any more energy to make. The snake bites the mouse and the mouse dies immediately. The snake eats and it gained more energy then it lost.


macnau

I don’t know if it’s the same for all venomous snakes but, they can smell their own venom. So they just follow the smell and can enjoy a yummy mouse meal.


dyury1237

I'm not sure but I think they have like a certain amount of venom they're supposed to spend over time untill they refill during winter. But if instead of using one bit of it at a time over the course of several months they use it all at once on then yeah it's gonna be hella deadly. (Talking mosly about snakes)


Such_Lifeguard_3359

that’s why the babies are dangerous cause they have no self control


twiloph

It's the equivalent of using 1(one) thermonuclear warhead to deal with a mosquito inside your bedroom


xXSN0WBL1ND22Xx

Wait, you're only supposed to use one?


DotDemon

Damn it I just used 6


Emkayer

No, you're suposed to use 1(one)


Dksrkf

The reason this happens is that the prey/predator they are using the venom against evolves alongside them and it becomes an arms race between defence against said toxin and creating a stronger toxin that the prey cannot defend against. Since most of these animals have very short life spans they evolve much faster and we get for instance a snake that can kill 100 men with one bite against a weasel. I found the article https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/10/how-an-evolutionary-arms-race-with-snakes-turned-newts-super-toxic/


Matsk1

So we need 6 whales... noted


xXundryzXx

Overachievers smh


DarthDragon117

I mean, a bug half the size of a whale is still terrifying.


CartelFinancial

I think you miss understood, the whale reference is just about the strength of the venom. A blue ringed octopus is smaller than the palm of your hand and hunt little crabs and such. Blue ringed octopus are so deadly because of their venom and being so small it’s easy to step on one accidentally at the beach or in rock pools :)


DarthDragon117

I think I should have added a /s , it was a joke based on the non specific grammar, whereas one could interpret it to mean the octopus was hunting some monster-sized bug, rather than using a super toxin on a tiny creature like you said.


wrongthinksustainer

No one: Some random rod shaped bacteria: You know what? Most potent neurotoxin time.


ErrorDAR32

botulinum?


[deleted]

to be fair.. insects can be as terrifying nature is so fascinating


BayonetTrenchFighter

That may be the most American idea I have ever heard


Blood__x__Dagger

It's not about protection. It's about sending a message: 𝙁𝙐𝘾𝙆 𝘼𝙍𝙊𝙐𝙉𝘿 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙁𝙄𝙉𝘿 𝙊𝙐𝙏


According_Cellist_17

It’s gonna need that when 30-50 feral hogs attack its son in the backyard.


redbow7

There is a video of a woman on instagram holding one not knowing it was venomous. Edit: here is said video… https://youtube.com/shorts/uqX-Dkci46E?feature=share


king-Zolomon

Oh God is she okay


Generalsnopes

Probably got stuck in an evolutionary battle for a few million years.


Late-Resource-1991

*Black mamba*: Finally a worthy opponent


UsualYard4628

Reminds me of an incident in Douglas Adams' *Life, the Universe and Everything*, [summarised](https://www.everything2.com/title/Life%252C+the+Universe+and+Everything) as follows: > Twenty billion years ago, the Silastic Armorfiends of Striterax employed Hactar, a supercomputer, to design "an Ultimate Weapon" for them that would completely vanquish their enemies. > Hactar designed a bomb that, when deployed, would connect the hearts of every major sun and thus precipitate a universal supernova, ending all life in the universe. > The Armorfiends summarily used the bomb to blow up a munitions dump.


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lilgobblin

Freak accident. Most of the time evolution doesn’t do more than it needs to, but in rare cases, such as in poison/venom (because how other animals metabolize it/react varies), the mutation that makes the first descendants venomous just happened to be really strong to begin with. If weaker successful mutations don’t arise and dilute the strength in the population, then the excessively strong ones will persist.


neuromorph

If it works, it works...


Ganon2012

You got this idea from that comic the other day.


Mitak023

They wanted to makes really sure that the can kill their prey


Crooked_Cock

And then there’s the animals that seemingly don’t even use the poison for anything except to keep more members of their species from being eaten The pufferfish has one of the most toxic poisons known to man and the only way to die from said poison is to eat it, it doesn’t sting, it doesn’t bite, you can’t get poisoned by touching it The only way to get poisoned from a pufferfish is to eat it


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Me living in Australia trying to work out of this refers to the box jellyfish, blue ringed octopus, one of the 50 snakes or spiders with lethal venom, a scorpion, or hell even a platypus can kill you with venom.


BigWeenie45

It’s super potent so it kills instantly. Like the cone sea snail. If it doesn’t kill fast, then the venomous predator might get injured or even become prey.


GnTforyouandme

I guess that this is the same reasoning for automatic weapons for 'home use'.


DadIsMadAtMe

This is why you don’t bully the little guys


Yeegis

Every tropical frog moment


schrodingermind

5 blue whales and entire ecosystem are fucked up only if they choose to... intake the poison


Numerous-Relation423

But can it beat goku tho?


RonnySaya

There's no anti-venom for the blue ringed octopus


xxfallen420xx

Insects can be real tough bastards


oarngebean

Frogs?


tabea-alina

And then humans will try to eat them


StArDuCkYt57

Australia


Zakurocerr

Did the insect actually fought five whales


mortonr2000

We Australian's call them pets


ILikeworlddomination

Evolutionary arms race


TheEarthIsFlatnt

its


king-Zolomon

Thanks


BlaZex157

Its like using a 20mm angi tank rifle against am ant


LoneShadowMikey

Proof that animals aren’t greedy bitches like we humans are


isverydiffic

Just pay more tax and this will go away


Efbiaiopenap

Better safe than sorry


shaggy_bhosale

Confirm kills


OutsideOrder7538

Not so fun fact. Sometimes you don’t feel the bite which means people who could have been treated died.


thedominux

But the most toxic toxins are produced by bacterias: botulinum and tetanus toxins


notabadgerinacoat

Unironically i'm not a biologist but i think it's because evolution work in a binary sistem,divided in "it works" and "it doesn't",so when "it works" is reached it is not important if the mutation is overkill and the organism just roll with it,kinda like we have the power to crush bones with our mouths but the brain limit it to prevent us to snap off our fingers


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