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all those animals which by their nature, have been provided with poisons, toxins, glands, teeth, secretions and / or anything else that naturally can be used as a defense, hunting. And therefore, can be dangerous.

These animals have a high biodiversity, and are widespread throughout the animal kingdom, especially among reptiles, amphibians, fish and insects. In the case of mammals, found only the platypus and the shrew, poisons children, and among birds, recently discovered piton or “garbage bird” which has most of your body as well as all plumage and skin, soaked in poison.

The danger level of poisons animals, LD50 is measured in “Lethal dose 50%” or “lethal dose 50% of cases.”

The most poisonous animal in the animal kingdom as this scale is the Chaperone flicker, or “Sea Wasp,” an inhabitant of the sea jellyfish in Australia that has a poison in their tentacles with approximately 20 micrograms per unit mass of the victim is say, can kill an adult with the equivalent of a grain of salt.

On land, the Tainan snake is the most lethal, with an LD50 of 10 micrograms and poison to kill 20 people with gout.

In general, the effects of the poisons are as varied as their uses, since they can be used to paralyze a victim without killing it, produce hallucinogenic effects, dizziness, irritation, pain and death through cardiac paralysis or nervous. However, these very dangerous poison is now investigating the use of medicine and pharmaceuticals, to possess unique chemical characteristics, and natural, so it should not be eradicated, but it respected as all other animals.