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Old 01-03-2005, 01:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Tarolisol
How can some fish eats them if there so toxic?
Organisms have a variety of adaptations for dealing with potentially toxic foodstuffs. Just because it's harmful to one species, genus, family, order, etc. doesn't mean it will be harmful to others, and of course the opposite is often the case as well.
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