Poison/Venom

>>2362864
Well anon most of them come from Australia, including that stone fish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdihHnaOQsk

>>2362864
What about plants? Dendrocnide moroides (common names include Gympie-Gympie and Suicide Plant) has an incredibly painful toxin. Apparently the pain can persist for weeks, even years and has driven people to madness.
There's a rumor a person shot himself after using it as toilet paper rather than suffer the agony.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXjHb5QmDV0

>>2363327
Who /coyotepack/ here?

>>2362906
>Apparently the pain can persist for weeks, even years
Jesus Christ how horrifying. What would even cause a plant to develop such adaptations.

Carnivorous plants with paralyzing toxins are one things. But to cause pain for weeks/years is just so fucking unsettling.

I love it.

>>2363489
>Carnivorous plants with paralyzing toxins are one things. But to cause pain for weeks/years is just so fucking unsettling
what kills a mouse might paralyze a rat or only hurt a person.

these things didn't evolve to have a certain effect on humans.

>>2363491
I wonder if anything is been done to "control" them?

Like they don't serve any purpose, medical or otherwise and the ecosystem most likely wouldn't even notice it's gone. So why not just get rid of all of them?

Judging from the few stories I just read it seems incredibly dangerous and careless to let this plant exist.

>>2363496
>So why not just get rid of all of them?
I suspect the usual reason: its possible use in warfare. But we could beat the authorities to the punch and do some guerilla defoliation

>>2363496
And that's why you should never be allowed to make any decision on ecology.

>>2363496
>why not just get rid of all of them
how can anyone unironically think shit like this
>the ecosystem wouldn't notice it was gone
yes it fucking would ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you can't just take entire fucking species out of an ecosystem

>>2363491
they don't evolve to have affects on certain animals. it's mostly about size. humans are usually too big for venom to be able to get throughout our whole body. like garter snakes have a small amount of venom that only affects stuff like frogs and mice because it didn't need venom for anything bigger than what they eat