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According to his memoirs (Cook 1777, as cited by Kao, 1966), one of Cook’s sailors obtained...

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According to his memoirs (Cook 1777, as cited by Kao, 1966), oneof Cook’s sailors obtained a puffer fish from a local trader in NewCaledonia. Cook’s two onboard biologists tried to talk him out ofeating the fish, but Cook was after all the captain, and all threetasted the liver and roe. Cook wrote:

“About three o’clock in the morning we found ourselves seized withan extraordinary weakness and numbness all over our limbs. I hadalmost lost the sense of feeling; nor could I distinguish betweenlight and heavy bodies of such as I had strength to move, a quartpot full of water and a feather being the same in my hand.”

In thinking about the Puffer Fish based on your research, how dothe fish’s toxins impact the brain andbody?  Please answer in lessthan 200 words.

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Puffer fish are also known as fugu belongs to the family tetraodontidae The poison of one fish is enough to kill 30 persons This poison helps them to survive in the natural world because these fish are slow and cannot escape    See Answer
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