I don't even think this is particularly ugly even... just poofy and prickly
September 30, 2008
Anonymous said...
This isn't cute at all..
September 30, 2008
Anonymous said...
I love when mother nature goes overkill...Not only is this thing spiny and too big for most predators to get their mouth around, but if you do manage to eat one you'll die of it's poison. Brilliant!
September 30, 2008
Anonymous said...
It is amazing how intelligence and ignorance go hand and hand!
September 30, 2008
Anonymous said...
I really love pufferfish... porcupinefish -a bit less so. However they are VERY destructive fish. Even in a hobby tank, they use that beak of theirs to break decorations apart or other fish! Put a fish like this on my wish list of 'some day'.
I'm glad you liked the Princess Bride reference. One of my favorites.
September 30, 2008
Anonymous said...
Oh I think puffer fish are adorable! I really want some Dwarf Puffers one day. They're tiny little freshwater puffers and just freakin adorable!
October 02, 2008
This is a puffer/blow fish that I believe belongs to the family of Tetraodontidae. And, unless I am wrong (and I am never wrong), they are headed for the Fire Swamp this fish belongs to a family of fish that are the second-most poisonous vertebrate in the world. Don't eat the skin or internal organs of one if you don't know what you're doing. Aren't these creatures used in the creation of zombies in the Caribbean?
This reminds me of a story I heard from my dive master down in Mexico. We had just come up from a dive in which I got to handle a fully-inflated porcupine fish. He told me how the previous summer he had a student who had swum up to him, clutching a finger that was oozing a cloud of blood into the water around his hand. The dive master took the student to the surface and asked what happened as he examined a finger that was missing its last half inch. The student, amid shocked sobs, explained that he was playing with a porcupine fish, and the thing looked so cute that he stuck his finger into the fish's beak. Bye-bye fingertip.
Seems like some people need a thick layer of civilization to protect them from their own stupidity.
Thanks for the photo, Marie.
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posted by Raging Wombat at 12:04 PM on Sep 29, 2008
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Close this window Jump to comment formMaybe I'm weird, but I think it's kind of cute!
September 29, 2008
That's just begging to be photoshopped onto a body...
September 29, 2008
How adorable and plump and round! Still, under no circumstance am I compelled to stick my finger in ANY mouth of an animal, cute or not.
*boggle*
September 30, 2008
WOW...that's one huge puffer fish
September 30, 2008
OH! Princess Bride reference FTW!
I don't even think this is particularly ugly even... just poofy and prickly
September 30, 2008
This isn't cute at all..
September 30, 2008
I love when mother nature goes overkill...Not only is this thing spiny and too big for most predators to get their mouth around, but if you do manage to eat one you'll die of it's poison. Brilliant!
September 30, 2008
It is amazing how intelligence and ignorance go hand and hand!
September 30, 2008
I really love pufferfish... porcupinefish -a bit less so. However they are VERY destructive fish. Even in a hobby tank, they use that beak of theirs to break decorations apart or other fish! Put a fish like this on my wish list of 'some day'.
September 30, 2008
awesome princess bride reference.
September 30, 2008
I'm glad you liked the Princess Bride reference. One of my favorites.
September 30, 2008
Oh I think puffer fish are adorable!
I really want some Dwarf Puffers one day. They're tiny little freshwater puffers and just freakin adorable!
October 02, 2008