Isn't that also how fugu gets its poison? I think the pufferfish grown on farms where their diet is regulated aren't poisonous.
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TIL... Thank you, kind stranger, for making me curious enough to look further
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu
Researchers have determined that a fugu's tetrodotoxin comes from eating other animals infested with tetrodotoxin-laden bacteria, to which the fish develops insensitivity over time.[10] Whether tetrodotoxin is sequestered from or produced by symbiotic bacteria is still debated.[11] As such, efforts have been made in research and aquaculture to allow farmers to produce safe fugu. Farmers now produce poison-free fugu by keeping the fish away from the bacteria – see § Aquaculture below.[10]
yup, another toxin called batrachtoxin, comes from eating specific beetles, by the frogs. once they are fed from a non-beetle diet they arnt poisonous.
if it were something like a cane toad, they dont need other animals to make thier toxins.
Then .. how do ants become poisonous?
They eat even tinier frogs.
Frogs and ants all the way down
Thanks, ants.
Thants.
Look around you! Just look around you!
First the thing with crows, and now this... Are we sure ants having figured out how to make computers and are now spreading propaganda online? 🤔
Many species of poison dart frogs derive their toxic compounds from ingesting mites! Even crazier, some molluscs like the Blue Angel sea slug (glaucus atlanticus) can ingest and weaponize the nematocysts from siphonophores like the Portuguese Man O' War. Nature be crazy
I don't like em puttin chemicals in the ants that turn the friggin frogs poisonous
I swear I had just gotten the bugsnax song out of my head. Back to square one.
Kinda bug and kinda snack
Try to catch 'em in your trap
Feed somebody and you'll see
We are whatever we eat