This story was originally posted in October 2017. Pufferfishes are slow moving fish that are hardly designed for fast swimming. If youвЂ™re interested in finding out how scientists uncover the mysteries of the deep blue sea, get up to speed about BRUVs. Learn more about what you can find along SAвЂ™s beaches by reading our beachcombing guide or checking out our story about the most commonly mistaken marine creatures. So if youвЂ™re strolling along the beach with your pooch during the warmer months, remember to keep watch of their wandering noses, and donвЂ™t let your dogвЂ™s breakfast be a puffer. Some years, when there are long periods of hot, calm weather, algal blooms reduce the oxygen in nearshore waters, causing puffers to wash up on the shore in large numbers.

Pufferfish occasionally wash ashore on SAвЂ™s coasts. Port Noarlunga, Aldinga and Rapid Head Sanctuary Zones in Encounter Marine Park are great places to go diving and see these fascinating sea creatures. These fish can be found over sandy, muddy seafloor and in seagrass beds across the state. In SA, we have many pufferfish species including the common and poisonous smooth toadfish. ItвЂ™s believed that people are turned into zombies as a punishment and if a person dies of unnatural causes, such as murder, the voodoo priests may zombify them to access cheap labour to work their paddocks.Д«elieve what you will, but the Haitian zombie is a different kind of scary compared to western cultureвЂ™s bloodthirsty fictional zombie interpretation. He reported that Haitian voodoo priests were making a concoction that included the pufferfish chemical tetrodotoxin mixed with voodoo sorcery to cause paralysis in people and turn them into real life zombies. During the 1980s, anthropologist Wade Davis investigated the Haitian zombie and uncovered that they are far from a folkloric myth. This book describes how the spikey fish got its name, how it fights off predators, where it lives, the strength of its toxins, and how a skilled chef can render it safe to eat. Haiti is located in the Caribbean Sea on half of the island of Hispaniola. The puzzling thing about the pufferfish or blowfish is that it is highly toxic yet some people consider it a delicacy. The people of Haiti believe that the poison in pufferfish causes real life zombies.

When tetrodotoxin is ingested it shuts down the nervous system and stops things like breathing and muscular functions. Like that of the innocent-looking pufferfish.Дid you know that almost all pufferfish, even South AustraliaвЂ™s own, contain tetrodotoxin, which is deadly to humans? Help Puffi save his friend and test your dexterity in twenty 3D levels This WebGL game is a re-skin of the game made for SUPER RTL Alvins. ItвЂ™s often in the dark depths of the ocean that some of the most interesting tales come to light.

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