Poisoning moray eels and "sea wasp"

Poisoning moray eels and "sea wasp" are extremely dangerous, especially snake-like spotted moray eels. They are found in the southern seas. The length of the moray eels reaches 3 meters, and the mass is up to 50 kg, but as a rule the specimen is about one meter in length. The skin of the fish is bare, without scales. There are so many sharp teeth in them that the mouth of the moray eels is constantly open. The danger of these fish is not only in the virulence of their glands, but also in the fact that morays are able to tear and eat a person. The moray eel meat, devoid of poisonous glands, is delicious and is used for food.

Poisoning moray eels and sea wasp are extremely dangerous, especially snake-like spotted moray eels

Morays live in the bottom layer of water, you can say, at the bottom. During the day, the moray eels sit in the crevices of rocks or corals, their heads poking out, and usually leading them from side to side, looking out for a passing prey, at night they come out of shelters to hunt. Usually the moray eats feed on fish, but attack both crustaceans and octopuses, who are caught in ambush, jumping out of their shelters with an arrow and grabbing the victim passing by.

Extremely dangerous is the "sea wasp", which is found in tropical waters. In principle, the "sea wasp" is a small jellyfish. The largest representative of this family is the size of a basketball, and the tentacles can grow to 1,5 meters. From its poison, much more people died than from sharks. Even the mere touch of the poisoning tentacles of this being is wholly enough to cause death in three minutes! The "sea wasp" has a poison against which medicine is powerless. The poison is so toxic that one dose can kill 60 people at once. It is known that animals, which under laboratory conditions were injected into the body with very insignificant doses of this poison weakened 10000 times, immediately died.

The "sea wasp" appears off the northern coasts of Australia between October and March in calm weather during the tide. Here she sails in search of food, for example, shrimp, which she loves. The sea wasp is almost invisible in the water, as it is kept in shaded places of the coastal strip, and therefore it is difficult to protect yourself from collision with it. Every year about 20 people die from its poison. One of the mysteries over which zoologists are fighting from all over the world is the presence of the "sea wasp" in the eyes. All would be nothing, but it is absolutely incomprehensible, where the visual signals come in the absence of the brain of this creature...

In addition, 15 species of marine life live in tropical waters snakes, whose bite is even more dangerous than their terrestrial relatives...

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