TL;DR close encounter with large invasive pufferfish

So I came eye to eye with "the most dangerous fish in the mediterranean" (*) today, a pretty big specimen of Lagocephalus scleratus, I would estimate 55cm long. It's an invasive species of large pufferfish migrating from the tropics due to clinate change causing big problems. Very interesting behavior, the fellow was not the least bit afraid of anything, and almost mockingly swam up to me, and occasionally came up to the beach its body halfway out of the water to search for prey I suppose. If you're the most poisonous fish in the ocean (to eat, that is), with the biting force to cut metal, you can afford to be a bit cocky

(*) if you eat it, and to a lesser extent if you handle it

#wildlife #biology #ClimateChange