Can You Build Up a Tolerance to Pufferfish Toxin? | Alien Ocean

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I can't even begin to fathom how many times I listened to Toxic by Britney Spears while I was making this video. Check out my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoctopuslady And my other videos: ✩This Microscopic Organism Has 90x More DNA than Humans?!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIcGWun6mZg ✩ What is Making Our Oceans Glow Like This?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cf26GXssT4 ✩Barnacles Have the Biggest D!cks in the Ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP7y0... ✩3 Ways Seahorses are Like British Aristocracy and 1 Way They're Definitely Not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MneR6... ✩Jellyfish are Filled with Bio-Weapons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdm6n... ✩ This Animal Can Vomit Up All Its Organs...and SURVIVE?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RSh8i2MKoY Photo manipulations, creative consulting, digital art, and thumbnail by Friscoborn. Music provided by tunetank.com 5am by danyvin: https://tunetank.com/tracks/3743-5-am/ Photo Credits: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XGRXpQSbTX_GfaJ1bZH0EMqrXNhzu43TJVGGIlZvICQ/edit?usp=sharing Video Sources: Maja Divjak - Clostridium tetani and Tetanus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6bLlFUO3XA John Downer Productions - Dolphins on Drugs - Pass the Puffer!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVqObIauPJA Sources: Matsuura, K. (2014). Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. Ichthyological Research, 62(1), 72–113. doi:10.1007/s10228-014-0444-5 ZHAO Shuang, SONG Jia-Kun, WANG Xiao-Jie. Functional morphology of puffing behavior in pufferfish (Takifugu obscurus). Zoological Research, 2010, 31(5): 539-549. doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1141.2010.05539 Alfaro, M. E., Santini, F., & Brock, C. D. (2007). DO REEFS DRIVE DIVERSIFICATION IN MARINE TELEOSTS? EVIDENCE FROM THE PUFFERFISH AND THEIR ALLIES (ORDER TETRAODONTIFORMES). Evolution, 61(9), 2104–2126. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00182.x Brainerd, E. L. (1994). Pufferfish inflation: Functional morphology of postcranial structures inDiodon holocanthus (Tetraodontiformes). Journal of Morphology, 220(3), 243–261. doi:10.1002/jmor.1052200304 Miyazawa, K., & Noguchi, T. (2001). DISTRIBUTION AND ORIGIN OF TETRODOTOXIN. Journal of Toxicology: Toxin Reviews, 20(1), 11–33. doi:10.1081/txr-100103081 Bane, V., Lehane, M., Dikshit, M., O’Riordan, A., & Furey, A. (2014). Tetrodotoxin: Chemistry, Toxicity, Source, Distribution and Detection. Toxins, 6(2), 693–755. doi:10.3390/toxins6020693 Chau, R., Kalaitzis, J. A., & Neilan, B. A. (2011). On the origins and biosynthesis of tetrodotoxin. Aquatic Toxicology, 104(1-2), 61–72. doi:10.1016/j.aquatox.2011.04.001 NARAHASHI, T. (2008). Tetrodotoxin. Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 84(5), 147–154. doi:10.2183/pjab.84.147 Moczydlowski, E. G. (2013). The molecular mystique of tetrodotoxin. Toxicon, 63, 165–183. doi:10.1016/j.toxicon.2012.11.026 Booth, W. (1988). Voodoo science. Science, 240(4850), 274–277. doi:10.1126/science.3353722 Hines, T. (2008). Zombies and Tetrodotoxin. Skeptical Inquirer, 32(3), 60. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2008/05/22164506/p60.pdf Vodou is elusive and endangered, but it remains the soul of Haitian people: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/07/vodou-haiti-endangered-faith-soul-of-haitian-people What does a dolphin use to get high? A toxic puffer fish that makes them lapse into a trance-like state: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2530664/High-not-dry-Dolphins-filmed-chewing-toxic-puffer-fish-enjoy-narcotic-like-effects.html