Can a blue ringed octopus kill a whale?

Answer 1

It depends on the size and type of the octopus and shark. A giant octopus can kill and eat a leopard shark, but a common octopus will be a prey of a tiger shark. Blue ringed octopus have deadly venom enough to kill a full-grown whale shark.

Answer 2

The blue-ringed octopus is 5 to 8 inches, but its venom is powerful enough to kill humans. There is no blue-ringed octopus antivenom available.

The octopus produces venom that contains tetrodotoxin, 5-hydroxytryptamine, hyaluronidase, tyramine, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine, and dopamine. The major neurotoxin component of blue-ringed octopus venom was originally known as maculotoxin but was later found to be identical to tetrodotoxin,[3] a neurotoxin which is also found in pufferfish and cone snails. Tetrodotoxin blocks sodium channels, causing motor paralysis and respiratory arrest within minutes of exposure, leading to cardiac arrest due to a lack of oxygen. The toxin is created by bacteria in the salivary glands of the octopus.[4] (it can kill 26 humans within minuts)

Answer 3

it can happen for a moray eel to be killed by the blue ringed octopus if the blue ringed octopus poisoned its body, or if it was injured. For a mantis shrimp, a blue ringed octopus would only kill it by poisoning its eyes, or if it was injured.

Answer 4

No, the blue ringed octopus's toxic is too small to damage the blue whale or any type of whale a little. The blue whale could just open its mouth and swallow the blue ringed octopus.

Answer 5

Its toxic is powerful enough to injure a large shark a little, no matter what species. But the toxic is not that strong to kill or injure a whale a bit.

Answer 6

The toxic is not really that serious enough to kill a whale, but blue ringed octopuses have plenty of venom to kill a human.

Answer 7

Blue ringed octopuses have enough poison to wound a great white shark, but not necessarily kill it.