Do you know of any Birds of Death? Danish biologists have found two new kinds of birds that are completely unlike the common birds you feed and occasionally pet. Both of these new species are lethal and hazardous. Because of genetic evolution, these recently found birds can conceal potent neurotoxins in their feathers. They have the ability to eat poisonous food and transform it into their own poison. This potent toxin has no effect on them.

The New Guinean jungle is home to this brand-new dangerous species of bird. The extremely strong neurotoxin named batrachotoxin is carried by the birds. Higher quantities of this neurotoxin, such as those found in the skin of golden poison frogs, cause cardiac arrest and muscular spasms as soon as they come into contact. Researchers discovered that in addition to tolerating these potent nerve chemicals, they retain them in their feathers, giving them a unique combination of characteristics.

This dangerous toxic bird is the regent whistler, Pachycephala schlegelii, and the rufous-naped bellbird, Aleadryas rufinucha, known as “Birds of Death” because they may instantly kill you if you touch them. These species are part of a family that is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific area.

Pachycephala schlegelii

According to Knud Jansson of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, their most recent expedition, they were able to recognize two new poisonous toxic bird species. These birds can survive and keep a neurotoxin in their feathers. The study team sought to determine how these birds could withstand the lethal poison. They discovered that the birds had transmitted mutations, albeit not in the same areas as dart frogs, in the area that regulates sodium channels, giving them this capacity to withstand poisons.

Aleadryas rufinucha

Although their neurotoxic is comparable to that of South American poison dart frogs, the investigation showed that the birds evolved their resistance and capacity to carry it in their bodies independently of the frogs. The rainforests of Central and South America are home to poison dart frogs. Even though it is just 2 inches long, the golden poison dart frog can kill ten adult males with its poison.

The researcher claims that although this finding is not the key to understanding shellfish poisoning or other comparable poisonings, it is a little piece of the puzzle that can assist in explaining how these poisons operate in the body and in cells.

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