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Fish the hedgehog is a fish that lives in tropical coral reefs. Named it hedgehog because if there is a danger it swells into a ball, covered with sharp as a hedgehog’s needles.

The average size of fish 30 cm and maximum dimensions of 90 cm While the spikes on the body of the fish hedgehog reach 5 cm.

Her mouth is wide and large. Something like the parrot’s beak. This is because covered with sharp plates of the jaws. The fins do not have spines, and on the abdomen they (the fins) are non-existent.

The spikes look back. Are the spikes on the solid plates covering the body of the fish. From the throat of the fish, the hedgehog leaves a special bag, which it can inflate, sensing the danger. Inflate the fish whole body, because of what it becomes like a ball with needles. When she inflates, she turns back and swims in this, until you feel no danger.

In the normal state, the fish, the hedgehog has a normal fish, but the swell it pulls out its thorns, which was pressed to the body.

Inflated fish with special organs that absorb water. When the danger behind the fish urchin spits out the water and deflates to a normal size.
Dangerous fish hedgehog

This fish is dangerous not only for fish. Her body contains enough poison to kill up to 35 people. The poison is in the skin and viscera, they are toxic due to the accumulation of tetrodotoxin, possessing paralytic activity.

When the poisoning starts itching on the lips and other parts of the body, clonitazene, vomiting and nausea, abdominal pain. Then start twitching muscle and lost sensitivity, the process of swallowing becomes difficult and lost his voice. 60% of poisonings are fatal. Death comes from paralysis of the respiratory muscles.

Day fish urchin is not dangerous, as it is a night fish. During the day she will hide under rocks and coral.
Habitat

She lives in the tropics. Most often found in Asia, the Pacific and the Atlantic.
Food

Most often it feeds on shellfish and crabs, crustaceans. Growths shaped like a beak allow fish hedgehog to crack the sturdy shells.

To not become food for a predator she leads a careful life, if necessary, turning into a prickly ball. However, in addition to sharp needles from the fish hedgehog there is another way of defense – mucus. Mucus is very poisonous and, if necessary, the fish can throw out what scared all the fish around her.

Make eating fish a hedgehog, as its venom is fatal for humans and for the animal. But the Japanese learned how to cook it so that it was not dangerous to humans. This extreme dish called fugu. To prepare fugu are required to undergo special courses of cooking and only after obtaining a certificate, you can cook.

View some videos about fish hedgehog and how it can turn into a spiny ball.

Fish hedgehog

Fish hedgehog inflates

As the urchin fish is a tropical fish we have you will not see it, except that in the aquarium, but we at Zavidovo fishing, you can experience the thrill of catching a huge catfish or snakehead.