{"id":187521,"date":"2025-12-16T12:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/187521\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:33:08","slug":"a-man-unknowingly-handled-one-of-the-deadliest-animals-on-earth-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/187521\/","title":{"rendered":"A man unknowingly handled one of the deadliest animals on earth in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A British man vacationing in the Philippines unknowingly handled the world\u2019s most deadly octopus, with venom considered to be more toxic than cyanide.<\/p>\n

SANTA FE, Philippines \u2013 A British man in the Philippines unknowingly handled one of the deadliest animals<\/a> in the world<\/a> on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Andy McConnell was vacationing in the Philippines when he stumbled across a blue-ringed octopus while swimming in the ocean.<\/p>\n

The name comes from the creature\u2019s indistinguishable blue markings.<\/p>\n

“These markings are certainly very beautiful and striking to look at. However, they are only displayed when the octopus is about to dispense its deadly poison,” according to a statement from experts at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (aims.gov.au).<\/p>\n

In the video, the man films himself delicately holding the octopus, quickly grabbing it whenever it tries to swim away.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve never seen it before,” said McConnell.<\/p>\n

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A man unknowingly handled one of the deadliest animals on earth in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

(Andy McConnell via Storyful)<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the octopus was in a good enough mood not to release its deadly toxins onto the palm of McConnell.<\/p>\n

Within its salivary glands live bacteria, which produce the chemical tetrodotoxin, according to aims.gov.au<\/a>. This is a strong, fast-acting toxin that paralyzes the target by blocking nerve transmission.<\/p>\n

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Many people have come close to dying from the deadly toxin. The paralysis from the octopus overcomes only voluntary muscles, leaving you completely conscious as you lose mobility.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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(GERMANY OUT) Blue Ringed Octopus, Hapolochlaena lunulata, Australia, Pacific Ocean, Great Barrier Reef.<\/p>\n

(Reinhard Dirscherl\/ullstein bild \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n

According to some reports from the National Library of Medicine, experts consider this toxin to be a thousand times more deadly to humans than cyanide.<\/p>\n

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Needless to say, this man escaped a near-death situation without even knowing it.<\/p>\n

If you ever see a blue-ringed octopus while swimming in the ocean, the best advice would be to avoid it altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British man vacationing in the Philippines unknowingly handled the world\u2019s most deadly octopus, with venom considered to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-187521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}