And there are monkeys that steal drinks from beach resorts.
What’s really interesting is that study was made and the distribution of social drinkers, nice drunks, mean drunks, etc, roughly matches that of the humans.
I mean it’s not really that surprising. We are pretty similar to apes (and maybe monkeys?) socially.
And dolphins like to kick puffer fish around to get high
This is only a reenactment
First time I laughed out loud today. Thanks! 😀
Puff, puff, pass.
Jaguars actually eat the leaves of b. capii, which acts as a MAOI in the Ayahuasca brew.
While there is some discussion that the harmala alkaloids in b. capii might also be slightly psychoactive in high doses, the actual main compound in Ayahuasca is DMT, which is certainly very psychoactive, but not bioavailable when consumed orally without a MAOI. Unless the jaguars have figured out how to combine the two and/or brew ayahuasca, I strongly doubt that’s their intention and that they’d get comparable effects.
I think the idea stems from the BBC show Weird Nature showing a jaguar eating yage leaves in episode 6, “Peculiar Potions”.
I’m not really sold on how well that content was researched.
B. caapi is called ayahuasca, as well as being an ingredient in the brew with the same name, so the image is not technically wrong.
The mental images of the consequences of running into, and then having to fight, a jaguar who’s high on ayahuasca is both hilarious and terrifying.
„Bro, chill out! The strawberry fractals are a mere figment of your imagination and can’t hurt you.“
„CHRAOW! CHRAOWOW!! Satayskewers!“
Sure. In my opinion, however, the overall context of the image does imply the jaguar enjoys similar effects to those clearly requiring the presence of DMT, as that is what is most people commonly associate with ayahuasca.
It’s a bit of a “look at all those animals getting high, this jaguar is even talking to machine elves in the 19th dimension” kinda thing, where - if I remember correctly - they actually consume the leaves for digestive purposes.
Again, the leaves do have an effect, e. g. they apparently act as an SSRI (that’s how common antidepressants work) and we can’t be absolutely sure about their effect on cats (catnip certainly has some effect on cats we don’t readily enjoy), so I can’t dismiss the notion of jaguars seeking them out for that reason as well.
I remember reading that the Sami people used to drink the piss of a reindeer that had eaten fly agaric/fly amanita mushrooms since even though they’re poisonous, most of the poison gets left in the reindeer while the nice hallucinogenic stuff passes through. Wikipedia put it a bit differently:
Patrick Harding describes the Sami custom of processing the fly agaric through reindeer.
Processing does sound nicer.
The ulabis doesn’t really seem to fit the infographic.
Eating opium plants when food is scarce doesn’t really fall under the “drug use” category as it seems like it would have to be done.
The other uses were chosen
opium plants
Do you mean “poppies?”
Aye, poppy
Does it matter, mr. Pedantic?
Naw. Enjoy your hamburger meat animal sandwiches.
Accuracy and pedantry are different.
Enjoy your hamburger meat animal sandwiches.
With bread buns?
Yes, made with pulverized grain wheat flour dust
Lol, if it doesn’t mattet than it’s not accuracy. It is pedantry.
also, if it’s the australian marsupial that it looks like… “Wallaby”
What? No way bats can fly under influence! They are not above the law.
Why is he running, Dad?
Because we have to chase him
They even make those ads with images from accidents, saying “if you drink, don’t fly”.
That’s why they fly upwards into international space first, duh.
Bees also get drunk. If they try to enter the hive while drunk, they get kicked out to sober up
From what I read they don’t only get kicked out but absolutely mutilated by ripping their limbs off
Whoa jeez, that wasn’t in the documentary I saw but I do see on YT that it happens. Jeez
Maybe that’s for the ones with priors
Maybe they were wanting to kill them anyway but were waiting til they couldn’t defend themselves
Meanwhile the Siberian Nomad off to the side waiting for whichever reindeer that gets the shrooms to take a piss 👁️👄👁️
ualibis
Apparently the Spanish translate Wallaby. TIL
Is there a reason we haven’t tried this narcotic fungi?
Shrooms are great, why not try other 'gi?
Humans actually do, but they do it by drinking the reindeer piss after the reindeer have eaten it.
I imagine it’s either there’s a chemical in the new fungi that specifically makes the rams high but not us or there is something in there that doesn’t affect them but is toxic to us
What about the birds that get drunk off of fermented cherries and smash into a stuff? We need to do something about these FWIs or nobody will be safe.
You know that mountain what where Moses did the thing with the burning bush? Hallucinogenic mushrooms.
Amarula logo. Not a bad liquor at all.
Cedar waxwings get drink on fermented mulberries and roll around on the ground.
the fuck is a ualabi.
(Bad example if they mean wallaby, opium is an invasive species and they only eat it out of desperation. A better one would be the chronically addled eucalyptic meth head that is the koala)