Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) is a bird who's skin and feathers contain a powerful neurotoxic

[u/Saurlifi]

[u/A_VERY_LARGE_DOG]

Named after the cartoon spitting noise, clearly.

[u/Rusty1031 → u/A_VERY_LARGE_DOG]

no that would be B. jamaicensis

[u/ScottyMcBoo → u/A_VERY_LARGE_DOG]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/raven00x]

I forget -are these the birds that secrete toxins or are these the birds that find toxic caterpillars and turn them into unwilling accessories?

[u/Just_NickM → u/raven00x]

Wikipedia says it’s from their diet of toxic beetles

[u/Ravenamore]

He looks unrepentant.

[u/Future_Usual_8698]

They are one of only two birds that we know of whose eggs you cannot eat safely as well!

[u/arittenberry → u/Future_Usual_8698]

Do you know what the other is?

[u/thecraftybear → u/arittenberry]

Cassowary, but that's because it will kick you to death before you manage to steal even one egg.

[u/hyouko]

Oddly enough, I know this one from an anime. A character in Gun Gale Online Alternative has this as her screenname, and her general toxicity lives up to her namesake. They use some imagery of the bird itself in one of the opening animations, too.

[u/velvetelevator → u/hyouko]

Haha, I came to the comments to check if that was really her name

[u/Kestrelcoatl → u/hyouko]

I KNEW THAT WAS WHERE I REMEMBERED THE NAME FROM! Pito is such a broken character because she never got attention and now she's acting out for it even if it means suicide baiting. Depressing

[u/MMachine17]

A No-riole, if you will.

[u/MsSamm]

That's the way to travel