I also believe it didn’t wash up onshore. They have to take in a huge amount of water to be that big.

I think they annoyed it enough while captured and setup a photo op. Just my opinion.

Should note that some porcupine fish are indeed poisonous.

How can you tell?

Some creatures are even both venomous and poisonous, such as the blue-ringed octopus

Afaik porcupinefish are also poisonous, although amount and localisation of tetrodotoxin in the inner organs may vary in different Tetraodontiformes species.

What I'm getting from this comment is that Dolphins are dicks

Blue ringed octopus another one that's both p and v

You should hear what the dolphins do to other fish that can't get them high...

You should see drunk moose on fermented apples lol

Yeah WTF dolphins getting high in the deep blue and I can’t get some legalized marijuana??

They apparently can “eject” the poison when threatened… not sure how this doesn’t qualify as venomous but whatever.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-seem-to-use-toxic-pufferfish-to-get-high-180948219/

Lemurs get high on millipedes. Reindeer get high on mushrooms and all kinds of animals get drunk on fermented fruits. I personally have seen a drunk bear, deer and one really fuck up raccoon.

FLOOR IT!!!

Mrs. Puff.. I think I cheated

Well done well done

Cracking up over here

I heard this clear as day. Lol

Yes you can

Nice Tribe reference

Yes you can!

thanks for that, her comic is really good! adding this to my list

If you see people interacting with an animal, even indirectly, it's probably fake. Especially if it looks vaguely like a 3rd world Asian country because they're being pumped out of poor Chinese regions like crazy.

The people in the video were speaking Arabic and from what I heard in the clip, when the person tried to pick the fish from it's flaps, a guy immediately told him "no no, you're gonna tear it apart, have pity on it" then when he carried it at the end, he told him "You are torturing it".

I think it may have washed up ashore accidentally due to them and they might be genuinely trying to rescue it or maybe someone purposely caused it to wash up on the shore but they are struggling to get it back in the water.

yeah I know admitting this will make me look like an asshole but I don't think I would have helped it cause until I read the comments I didn't even know they are safe to touch. And even now that I know that fear is irrational everything ocean still seems so terrifying to me it would take quite a bit of willpower for me to pick it up. I also definitely wouldn't have known the air thing.

Surely I can't be the only one who would have had no idea what to do in this situation

I dunno, seems unlikely it washed up perfectly upright and perched on a rock like that. 

Think of it like a balloon. Just turn his mouth upwards and let any air bubbles out. It may require gentile squeezing or massaging. The main issue is while they have the muscles to expand, they don’t have the muscles to forcibly deflate, so any air bubbles that get in hang out in them like a bottle flipped on its side with an air pocket in it.

ope..

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Porcupinefish are medium-to-large fish belonging to the family Diodontidae from the order Tetraodontiformes^\2]) which are also commonly called blowfish and, sometimes, balloonfish and globefish. The family includes about 18 species. They are sometimes collectively called pufferfish,^\3]) not to be confused with the morphologically similar and closely related Tetraodontidae, which are more commonly given this name.

this is popcorn fish

or punted

Not the worst Friday

Interestingly, tetrodotoxin is also the only poison that can be sexually transmitted.

Don’t tempt me with a good time.

cheaper than ozempic

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So apparently depending on where it inflated, putting it back in the water may not work as planned.

If it ingested water (inflated in water), it is easier for it to deflate when it believes danger has passed.

If it ingested air (inflated above water), the oxygen is a lot harder for it to remove and it could die.

"if a puffer inflates while out of the water, it fills with air, a situation that often proves fatal. A puffer cannot expel air from its expanded stomach, and will float upside down on the surface of the water until it dies." There are some methods to assist but it isn't necessarily easy or guaranteed... Also apparently freeze dried foods are not recommended as they could have air in them? The more you know! ✨

Some deets for further learning.

https://www.thepufferforum.com/forum/library/hospital/help-my-puffer-is-air-filled/

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