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The toxins in poisonous plants affect herbivores, and deter them from consuming the plants. Plants cannot move to escape their predators, so they must have other means of protecting themselves from herbivorous animals. Some plants have physical defenses such as thorns, spines and prickles, but by far the most common type of protection is ...
The hooded pitohui.The neurotoxin homobatrachotoxin on the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling on contact.. The following is a list of poisonous animals, which are animals that passively deliver toxins (called poison) to their victims upon contact such as through inhalation, absorption through the skin, or after being ingested.
The lethal dose of green plant material is between 0.6% and 6.0% of an animal's body weight. [35] In experiments with sheep it was among the most poisonous of members of its genus with just 0.4% of green material by body weight causing symptoms, close to the 0.2% of Toxicoscordion nuttallii .
Khargone is a city and administrative headquarters of the Khargone district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The city is located on the bank of the Kunda river and is known for its cotton and chilly ( chili pepper ) production.
[1] [2] They are often distinguished from poisonous animals, which instead passively deliver their toxins (called poison) to their victims upon contact such as through inhalation, absorption through the skin, or after being ingested. [1] [2] [3] The only difference between venomous animals and poisonous animals is how they deliver the toxins. [3]
Bufotoxins are a family of toxic steroid lactones or substituted tryptamines of which some are toxic. They occur in the parotoid glands, skin, and poison of many toads (Bufonidae family) and other amphibians, and in some plants and mushrooms. [1] [2] [3] The exact composition varies greatly with the specific source of the toxin.
Early writers used quail as the standard example of an animal that could eat something poisonous to man without ill effects for themselves. Aristotle ( On Plants 820:6-7), Philo ( Geoponics : 14: 24), Lucretius ( On the Nature of Things : 4: 639–640), Galen ( De Temperamentis : 3:4) and Sextus Empiricus (Outlines of Pyrrhonism: 1: 57) all ...
Toxungens have evolved in a variety of animals, including flatworms, [4] insects, [5] [6] arachnids, [7] cephalopods, [8] amphibians, [9] and reptiles. [10]Toxungen use possibly also exists in birds, as a number of species deploy defensive secretions from their stomachs, uropygial glands, or cloacas, and some anoint themselves with heterogenously acquired chemicals from millipedes ...