Mad as a Marine Biologist

marine-science: Mating Nudibranchs Photograph by David Doubilet The bright, contrasting hues of mating nudibranchs—sea slugs found in reefs and the deep ocean—warn potential predators of their venomous, unpalatable flesh. Equipped with both male and female reproductive organs, each nudibranch fertilizes the other, and both produce eggs. That would be poisonous flesh. Venom has to be injected, poison is ingested. 

marine-science:

Mating Nudibranchs

Photograph by David Doubilet

The bright, contrasting hues of mating nudibranchs—sea slugs found in reefs and the deep ocean—warn potential predators of their venomous, unpalatable flesh. Equipped with both male and female reproductive organs, each nudibranch fertilizes the other, and both produce eggs.

That would be poisonous flesh. Venom has to be injected, poison is ingested. 

(via marine-science-deactivated20111)

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