Joel Sartoreのインスタグラム(joelsartore) - 10月11日 23時16分

Swipe to see this Southern puffer fish expand its extremely elastic stomach with water. This defense mechanism helps compensate for the puffer’s slow, clumsy movement. Most pufferfish have spiny bodies as well as toxins within their organs that make them unpalatable at best and deadly at worst to most predators. Because just one of these fish contains enough poison to kill 30 humans, we generally do not hunt or eat them. However, due to pollution, some species of puffers are listed as vulnerable on the #IUCN Red List.
This fish was photographed at @GulfSpecimen Marine Lab in Florida where an ongoing education program has been running for years, teaching thousands of schoolchildren each year about the wonders of marine creatures from the Gulf of Mexico and beyond.
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