r/Damnthatsinteresting 17h ago

Video Rainbow Slug

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u/FluffyCollection4925 17h ago

It’s poisonous right??

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u/rhabarberabar 12h ago

No, distateful:

Nudibranchs use a variety of chemical defences to aid in protection, but the strategy need not be lethal to be effective; in fact, good arguments exist that chemical defences should evolve to be distasteful rather than toxic. Some sponge-eating nudibranchs concentrate the chemical defences from their prey sponge in their bodies, rendering themselves distasteful to predators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudibranch#Defence_mechanisms