Dolphins Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High
From Smithsonianmag: by Rachel Nuwer
Humans aren’t the only creatures that suffer from substance abuse problems. Horses eat hallucinogenic weeds, elephants get drunk on overripe fruit and big horn sheep love narcotic lichen. Monkey’s attraction to sugar-rich and ethanol-containing fruit, in fact, may explain our own attraction to alcohol.
Now, dolphins may join that list. Footage from a BBC documentary series, “Spy in the Pod,” reveals what appears to be dolphins getting high off of pufferfish.
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