I was scrolling through the video, and I saw a brightly colored little octopus swimming out of the egg shell, like a red flame, so beautiful that it was indescribable, and my eyes could not leave for a long time, turning over and over several times.
As a senior foodie, I can't help but drool, can I eat it?
At this moment, a piece of news suddenly popped up, and the hot pot restaurant surprised the blue-ringed octopus! A Guangdong netizen was eating hot pot, and suddenly found that one of the small octopuses on the plate was covered with blue ring-like markings, and quickly asked netizens on social media, is this a blue-ringed octopus, can it be cooked?
Afraid! The blue-ringed octopus is highly poisonous, this octopus is so gorgeous, will it also be poisonous?
I quickly checked the Internet, and sure enough, this guy may also be extremely poisonous, as deadly as the toxin of the blue-ringed octopus.
But it is not an octopus, but a flame squid that lives in tropical waters in Indonesia, New Guinea, Malaysia and northern Australia.
The flame squid is an animal that is both outrageously beautiful and ugly.
How to say it? It is born with beauty, and then it becomes extremely ugly, and at certain highlights of its life, it becomes beautiful again, but after that it will remain dormant in ugliness, humbly living.
This is because when the mother flame squid lays its eggs, it is one by one that the white eggs are fixed in safe coral, rock crevices. The eggs will gradually become transparent during hatching, and the little squid inside will become more and more gorgeous, and when it breaks out of the shell, it is like a flame that is extremely amazing.
But then, they will sink to the bottom of the sea, return to their original color, extremely ugly dark brown, and change color through the pigment cells on the surface, disguise themselves as the color of the surrounding environment, catch fish and shrimp unexpectedly, and spend their lives.
Once the flame squid is frightened, its whole body will quickly circulate black, dark brown, white and yellow markings, as if it is flowing. At the moment of attack, the tip of its tentacle turns bright red, becoming a "flame" just like when it was born.
This is by no means just to scare stupid opponents, but a warning, poisonous, please be careful! Toxic, please be careful!
The toxins in the flame squid are the same as those of the blue-ringed octopus, mainly a mixture of tetrodotoxin and other toxins, a blue-ringed octopus's toxin is said to kill 26 adults in a few minutes, and many people believe that the flame squid's toxins are just as strong, so no one will ever eat the flame squid.
However, Christine Bedor, an assistant professor of biology at Georgia Southern University in the United States, has been feeding and studying flame squid, believing that flame squid may not be so toxic, and many predators can easily eat them without any signs of poisoning. As for whether humans can eat it, no one may dare to try it yet.
So how toxic the flame squid is, it is still unknown, but the poison of the blue-ringed octopus has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and no one dares to try to eat them easily.
After the friend in Guangdong asked for help on the Internet, he also got a positive response from netizens, saying that it was a blue-ringed octopus, don't eat it.
Some netizens are still worried, constantly leaving messages and asking, are you okay with this friend?
Fortunately, the blogger finally spoke later, did not eat, and is still alive.
Netizens finally let go of their hearts and marveled that "knowledge changes destiny", if they were themselves, they might eat it.
So friends should go back and recognize the blue-ringed octopus in the hot pot restaurant, because the blue-ringed octopus you see on the Internet is alive, which may not be like this, and there may be few photos of dead blue-ringed octopus on the Internet, so it is best to collect it, and confirm it next time you encounter it to avoid a table of people going there.