List of poisonous animals

Not to be confused with List of venomous animals.

The hooded pitohui. A neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin found in the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling in those touching the bird.

Poisonous animals

This list is a partial list of animals that are poisonous to humans (and other animals):

Birds

• Pitohui

  

  Poison dart frogs are well known for their brightly colored skin. However it is their brightly colored skin that gives off the warning to predators of their toxicity.

• Blue-capped ifrita
• Little shrikethrush
• Spur-winged goose (diet-dependent)
• Common quail (diet-dependent)

Frogs and toads

• American toad
• Asiatic flower
• Cane toad
• Colorado River toad
• Common toad
• European green toad
• Fowler's toad
• Mantella
• Poison dart frog
• Yellow-banded poison dart frog

Salamanders

Most birds dislike the taste of monarch butterflies. This is because they contain the poisons from when they were caterpillars as they were eating their favorite plant, Poisonous milkweed

• Pacific newts

Fish

• Tetraodontidae (Blowfish, Pufferfish)

Cephalopods

• Blue-ringed octopus
• Pfeffer's flamboyant cuttlefish

Insects

• Blister beetle
• Birdwings
• Milkweed butterfly
• Battus (butterfly)

See also

• Poisonous amphibians
• Toxic birds
• List of venomous animals
• List of poisonous plants
• List of poisonous fungi