It can use its teeth to crunch up pretty much anything that comes its way – and only a tiny amount of its poison is enough to kill a person. A conversation with Croatian scientist Neven Iveša, who examined the fish – wearing thin rubber gloves.
Neven Iveša is almost a little offended. After all, the marine biologist is Research focus on invasive species traveled all the way to the Maldives just to see a real puffer fish. A few days ago, however, it was not him but a Slovenian tourist who pulled a hare-headed puffer fish out of the water right in front of his front door. Fortunately, thanks to a watchful colleague, the 1.3 kilogram and over half a meter long specimen found its way to Iveša’s laboratory at the Juraj Dobrila University in Pula.