What are the most dangerous animals in the ocean?
I’d like to oppose this first. After reading all the answers, almost all of them are just for show or they just searched on Baidu and copied it to attract followers and likes. What are the most dangerous animals in the ocean? Let’s talk about danger. There are two categories: active and passive.
The active one is of course actively aggressive, and the passive one is when its territory is invaded or your behavior threatens it.
Of course, the meaning of the threat of self-defense here may be rather vague. It is possible that you are completely unaware that you have invaded the territory of certain marine creatures and have no intention of harming any creatures, but they care a lot.
Below I have listed some organisms that can cause serious life-threatening and irreversible damage to humans.
The ranking is in no particular order, after all (important things should be said three times)
Whether it is dangerous or not depends on whether you are zuo enough.
It is dangerous or not depends on whether you are zuo enough.
Whether it is dangerous or not depends on whether you are zuo enough.
Passive:
Cone Snail
To be honest, I have hardly seen snails in the water.
The picture above is just one type. Don’t think that all cone snails have this kind of pattern.
See the tentacles in the front right? Although its poison can be fatal even in a small dose, the cone snail has a limited attack range and moves slowly. If you don’t provoke it, it won’t care about you. So I don’t agree with putting it on the most dangerous list.
Jellyfish
Most dive sites have them, but most jellyfish are hard to spot because they are transparent. However, poisonous jellyfish are rarely encountered.
Physalia physalis. The Portuguese man-of-war, also known as the Portuguese man-of-war, belongs to the order Siphonophora under the class Hydrozoa. It looks like a single jellyfish on the surface, but is actually a colony of jellyfish and polyps, and the individuals are closely connected and cannot survive independently.
Box jellyfish
Box jellyfish . Among the species of Cubozoa, the most famous is the Australian box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri), commonly known as the sea wasp. It is consider the most deadly jellyfish and one of the most venomous creatures in the world. Which can kill people within minutes. In the movie “Seven Pounds” starring Will Smith, the sea wasp played the role of the ultimate killer.
As for the online rumor that the Portuguese man-of-war is the most poisonous jellyfish, I don’t know which one is more poisonous, but I don’t think anyone would want to try it.
Peacock Mantis Shrimp
Diving is relatively rare and the appearance is very high.
Peacock Mantis Shrimp: Also called the Bullet Mantis Shrimp, it belongs to the same order as the Mantis Shrimp. One punch from it could make Arnold Schwarzenegger fall to the ground in pain. It can punch at a speed of over 80 kilometers per hour. However, due to its gorgeous appearance, it also has a place in the pet market. Anyway, raising it is like raising a wife, and no third party can interfere, otherwise it will die miserably. It is also say that you need to equip it with a bulletproof glass tank to raise it.
Some people think that 80 kilometers per hour is not much. In more detail, the acceleration exceeds that of a 5.588 mm caliber pistol bullet, and can produce a maximum impact force of 60 kilograms. The high temperature generated by friction can even cause sparks in the surrounding water. A scientist once went to the sea to catch it, but he was injure in his finger while wearing gloves. The blood kept flowing. He took it back to the laboratory and put it in a measuring cylinder, and the measuring cylinder was also smash to pieces by it.
The attack power of the mantis shrimp can kill a large crab in seconds. And the crab claws are remove instantly.
Diving is rare and only occurs at a few dive sites.
The blue-ringed octopus, also known as the blue-ringed octopus or the leopard octopus, [1] is a species of octopus that lives on the western Pacific Ocean, from Japan to Australia. There are three living species and one unidentified species. The blue-ringed octopus is one of the most venomous animals in the world.
Lionfish
In fact, the beauty is quite high when you see it in person in the water, and it is very common in most diving places.
Lionfish (scientific name: Pterois volitans), also known as lionfish, firefish, etc., body length, 25-40 cm, the general name of fish of the genus Lionfish in the family Scorpionfish in the order Scorpioniformes. The typical feature is the large fan-like pectoral fins. It mainly feeds on crustaceans. It is mostly found in temperate coastal reefs or coral reefs, distributed in the warm waters of the Indo-Western Pacific Ocean, and is a small marine fish. Lionfish lives in reefs or coral reefs, and some are found in deep waters. They often swim in pairs. It is a very dangerous fish, not only very dangerous to small fish, but also a threat to humans. The spines on its dorsal fin are very poisonous.
When encountering an enemy, it will turn sideways and sprint towards the opponent with its dorsal fin spines. The fin spines have venom glands, and people will feel severe pain after being stung. In severe cases, they will have difficulty breathing and even faint. (Fainting underwater is not a trivial matter, after all, you can’t be sure whether your regulator can still be keep in your mouth for breathing)
Stonefish
The stonefish is a highly poisonous fish in nature. Its “fatal sting” is describe as the most painful sting that humans can suffer . The stonefish is not impressive in appearance, and is only about 30 cm long. It likes to hide on the seabed or under reefs, disguising itself as an inconspicuous stone. If someone accidentally steps on it, it will immediately fight back without hesitation, emitting deadly poison. The 12 to 14 needle-like dorsal spines on its back can easily penetrate the sole of the shoe and pierce the sole of the foot, causing the person to be quickly poison and in severe pain until death.
Scorpion fish, seems to belong to the same family as stone fish. I feel the information on Baidu Encyclopedia is not quite right, lion fish is also a kind of scorpion fish. Just remember that it is poisonous, after all, it is not easy to identify poison in water.