00:00The Hooded Piddoe Bird
00:01The Hooded Piddoe Bird coats its feathers in deadly nerve poison.
00:06This toxin is batriotoxin, the exact same lethal chemical found in poison dart frogs.
00:13Handling the bird causes numbness and tingling from batriotoxins in its feathers and skin.
00:19The bird does not make the poison itself, but eats toxic beetles to steal it.
00:24Eating these tiny insects is how the Hooded Piddoe Bird coats its feathers in deadly nerve poison.
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