in fact, squid ink (very close cousin of octopuses) -- is eaten as a sauce on pasta -- quite a delicacy!
The Blue-ringed Octopus of Australia however is deadly poisonous. Its saliva contains tetradotoxin -- a truly nasty neurotoxin that blocks the sodium channel and makes you lose control of the muscles you need to breathe (that and 5-hydroytriptamine (5HT) being signature parts of the weird and very effective toxin cocktail that appears in molluscs).
Note though -- it's not the ink -- it's the saliva, so they have to bite you to deliver it (it would seem).
Most octopuses, however, aren't poisonous at all, and in fact are very intelligent. If you have the right equipment, they can even make good pets.
Octopus comes from a greek word, 'oktapus' which means eight-footed. Their blood is blue. Octopus can change colours so that they can blend with the surrounding. But when they are scared they will change to white. Octopus only leave in salt water. The ink is in a sac. They have three hearts. MY mother sometimes cook 'sotong hitam using the black ink. That means the ink can be eaten.
Where does the black ink come out of an octopus? The ink comes out of small holes covering the bottom of the octopus. Octopus ink comes from the white dots on the skin of the the octopus/squid
1.The ink comes out of small holes covering the bottom of the octopus.
ReplyDeleteOctopus ink comes from the white dots on the skin of the the octopus/squid.
Every octopus in World is poisonous, scientists find
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No Kaifeng not all octopus are poisonous because if they are poisonous how come they can be eaten?
DeleteNo Kaifeng, not all octopus are poisonous
Deletethey are non-poisonous to eat because they had removed a part called 'suckers' located on the tentacles.
Deletein fact, squid ink (very close cousin of octopuses) -- is eaten as a sauce on pasta -- quite a delicacy!
ReplyDeleteThe Blue-ringed Octopus of Australia however is deadly poisonous. Its saliva contains tetradotoxin -- a truly nasty neurotoxin that blocks the sodium channel and makes you lose control of the muscles you need to breathe (that and 5-hydroytriptamine (5HT) being signature parts of the weird and very effective toxin cocktail that appears in molluscs).
Note though -- it's not the ink -- it's the saliva, so they have to bite you to deliver it (it would seem).
Most octopuses, however, aren't poisonous at all, and in fact are very intelligent. If you have the right equipment, they can even make good pets.
Octopus comes from a greek word, 'oktapus' which means eight-footed. Their blood is blue. Octopus can change colours so that they can blend with the surrounding. But when they are scared they will change to white. Octopus only leave in salt water. The ink is in a sac. They have three hearts. MY mother sometimes cook 'sotong hitam using the black ink. That means the ink can be eaten.
ReplyDeleteWhere does the black ink come out of an octopus?
ReplyDeleteThe ink comes out of small holes covering the bottom of the octopus. Octopus ink comes from the white dots on the skin of the the octopus/squid
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ReplyDeletego to the website and you will know that squid and octopus ink can be eaten.
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