Blue-Ringed Octopus

Cool Facts About Animals

Cool Facts About Animals Podcast

Podcast, Coolfacts, Education For Kids, Kids, Animals, Kids & Family, Pets & Animals

4.5 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On this episode we are exploring the deadly but adorable blue-ringed octopus. This little guy is only the size of a golf ball, but has enough venom to kill 26 grown men in its saliva. We talk about symbiotic relationships, what its venom does, and, oh, zombie powder.

So many thanks to David, our newest Patreon sponsor! He’s using his own pocket money to help support our show. You can support our show too! For more details, visit https://www.patreon.com/coolfactsaboutanimals

We love to hear from you – send us your creature quiz or riddle answer, or just send us a note. You can reach us at [email protected] or on twitter at @coolanimalspod.

Thanks as always to Andrew of the awesome podcast Ear Snacks for our theme music!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Cordyre. Welcome to Cool Facts about Aitables. Today, we have Clara and me, Cordray. And
0:16.1	Little Bear. I'm Phil. And I'm baby.
0:21.7	Hi, ma'am.
0:22.7	Meow.
0:23.4	I am Jaguar.
0:25.2	The awesome.
0:26.3	And I am Donut, the desert owl.
0:28.9	My name is donut because the first letter of donut is D for desert.
0:33.5	And the second letter is O for owl.
0:36.8	Great.
0:37.2	Hi, everybody. Now, almost everybody here has pretty bad cold, so excuse us if we sniff.
0:42.2	We're trying our best not to sniff into the recorder. We want to start our show today by giving a big thank you to somebody.
0:47.9	Jaguar, who are we thinking?
0:49.4	His name is David of Australia.
0:53.2	And why are we thinking David of Australia?
0:55.0	Is it just David? You call just David.
0:57.0	Okay, and why is just David?
0:59.0	Hey!
1:00.0	Why are we thinking David?
1:02.0	Because...
1:03.0	Meow Meow! Mea! Mea! He's awesome!
1:06.0	Well, we are really thankful to David because he is our newest Patreon sponsor.
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