I can compare this funny fish, always looking angry with many people around us. Looking proud, ignorant, bad and self-confdent, always fighting against the world around. It's something I see in many of the faces which surround us lately. Unfortunately, it looks really lonely and we only buy it dead and stuffed at some summer resort and even then we cannot touch it.

Some wikipedia info:

Puffer fish are the second most poisonous vertebrate in the world, the first being a Golden Poison Frog. The skin and certain internal organs of many tetraodontidae are highly toxic to humans

The puffer's unique and distinctive natural defenses are a compensation for their particular form of locomotion. Puffers use a combination of pectoral, dorsal, anal, and caudal fins ( aka all sources ) for propulsion that make them highly maneuverable but very slow, and therefore comparatively easy targets for predators. As a defense mechanism, puffers have the ability to puff, or to inflate rapidly, filling their extremely elastic stomachs with water (or air when outside the water) until they are almost spherical in shape. Thus, a hungry predator stalking the puffers may suddenly find itself facing what seems to be a much larger fish and pause, giving the puffers an opportunity to retreat to safety. When lifted out of water there is a risk that puffers inflate with air. This may result in problems deflating again afterwards.

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