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Puffer Fish By: Ms. Cox. Puffer Fish. Before. After. S urvival traits of the puffer fish.
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Puffer Fish By: Ms. Cox
Puffer Fish • Before • After
Survival traits of the puffer fish The puffer fish has four large sized teeth that are fused together to form a lower and upper plate. They use these specialized teeth to crush the shells of mollusks and crustaceans, which are their natural sources of food. Many parts of the puffer fish, such as the skin, ovaries, muscles, and liver, have a very potent and paralyzing poison known as tetrodotoxin, which is around thousand times more deadly than cyanide. •Once the body of the puffer fish is fully extended, its predators can neither grip its body nor bite through the skin
Interesting facts about the puffer fish Most of its body is poisonous. The puffer fish usually inflates its body with water, instead of air, since it can expel water more easily. There is no antidote for the particular poison of the puffer fish.