When a fresh-faced ornithologist was in training to become a specialist, he spent a lot of time in New Guinea in order to explore and discover more about local birds. One day he saw a brightly coloured bird in his mist net. It scratched him on the mouth and afterwards the mouth went numb. After that, he found out that the brightly coloured bird carried a poison in itself. The poison was not lethal when handled, but the ornithologist wanted to clarify why the bird carried the poison and why it was not sensitive to the poison itself. Despite all the attempts of this ornithologist and his other colleagues to find it out, these questions remain highly speculative. When it comes to the origin of the poison, the ornithologists speculated that it might come from the prey, mites. When it comes to the question:“ How does birds protect itself from the poison?”, there is also only a theory. The ornithologist say that the bird can have a protein that hinders the poison to bind to sodium channels in nerves and protects the bird in this way from the poison.