Animals that do drugs

The custom of taking drugs is not only a human domain; some animals do it as well. Kangaroos, for example, enter opium poppy fields, eat the poppy capsules and hop in circles for a while after that.  On the island St. Kitts guenons steal the cocktails of tourists and get drunk from them. Hedgehogs empty beer traps gardeners lay for snails and get drunk as well.

But the most amazing thing is what dolphins do: They do the equivalent of smoking reefers! They maltreat pufferfish and get high on tetrodotoxin, the poison the fish produces which can be found in its skin (as well as other internal places, like liver, ovaries and intestines). They even pass the reefer - pardon, pufferfish - to each other. Interestingly this is only done by young male dolphins. Some parallel to human beings?


Edited by BaldFriede - February 21 2016 at 09:20

Animals that do drugs? Well, the first one that comes to mind is Eric Burdon.

BaldFriede wrote: The custom of taking drugs is not only a human domain; some animals do it as well. Kangaroos, for example, enter opium poppy fields, eat the poppy capsules and hop in circles for a while after that.  On the island St. Kitts guenons steal the cocktails of tourists and get drunk from them. Hedgehogs empty beer traps gardeners lay for snails and get drunk as well. But the most amazing thing is what dolphins do: They do the equivalent of smoking reefers! They maltreat pufferfish and get high on tetrodotoxin, the poison the fish produces which can be found in its skin (as well as other internal places, like liver, ovaries and intestines). They even pass the reefer - pardon, pufferfish - to each other. Interestingly this is only done by young male dolphins. Some parallel to human beings?

I do have dibs on this for band names btw...I might suggest it to KJtheGuitarist (with a finders fee of course) That band name will make him a million and all the little girls he can handle

as far as this rather interesting topic...

animals do have it better than we do don't they.  No jobs...no money.. just the old school notion of beng able to take what you want if big enough to keep it.. so much for us being the most evolved species. We over evolved into a legal morass of societal accountability for our actions.. not to mention 40 hour + work weeks.. fast food take out..  and right wing politicians

just goes to show! Animal tested.. animal approved  Drugs are good for you


Edited by micky - February 21 2016 at 12:14

Guldbamsen wrote: Nice idea for a thread Friede. I don't believe I've come across this topic before I know there are many accounts of jaguars deliberately seeking out DMT rich plants for then to enter this kitty-like state. They lie on the forest floor and literally trip away for a couple of hours. The indeginous folks that live next to them believe the jaguar does this to heighten it's senses - just oike they do when they use DMT.

The similarity to the reefer gives a whole new meaning to "pufferfish", doesn't it?


Edited by BaldFriede - February 21 2016 at 12:46

Of course The Animals did drugs.