Leemurs provoke centipedes to make them excrete their defensive toxin, but then the lemurs just use that toxin to get high and repel mosquitos.
The word just is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
Get high and repel mosquitos?
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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.
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.
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.
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!“
Came here for this, I was looking forward to having a Jaguar shaman for my aya ceremony but I guess that's off now
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.
I remember reading about this too (cannot remember where exactly. It was a long time ago) and how that practice helped shape the idea of Santa's flying reindeer.
"Ualabis"? Is that supposed to be "wallabies"?
As best I can tell from searching, that's kind of the Spanish word for "wallabies" (translate gives "ualabies"). Seems like a weird choice.
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
They even make those ads with images from accidents, saying "if you drink, don't fly".
Meanwhile the Siberian Nomad off to the side waiting for whichever reindeer that gets the shrooms to take a piss 👁️👄👁️
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 they were wanting to kill them anyway but were waiting til they couldn't defend themselves
I am not sure if I am scared of a high jaguar or want to pet it. Maybe both?
Jaguar to his buddy: "Dude, I was so baked I let a hairless monkey pet me. I got the munchies though, so I ate him."
I thought it may have been a more accurate and respectful transcription of the First Nations language the word came from, as opposed to the simplified colonial-era anglicisations, though it being Spanish orthography makes sense.
This is documentary video of animals on the savannah eating fermented marula is great
the hung over warthog is so relateable!
I was going to recommend the movie this is from, "Animals are Beautiful People"! It's an older Disney produced documentary from the 70s I think. They put a comedic twist on the narraration and add plenty of cartoon sound affects throughout the film
I do not recommend it. Firstly, it's not a Disney movie. It was made by a white South African in South Africa during apartheid.
A lot of it is just made up and some of it is clearly animal abuse. There's no question that a weaver bird nest was set on fire for the movie.
The elephant thing isn't even true. It's staged with creative editing.
https://www.krugerpark.co.za/krugerpark-times-3-8-elephant-myth-22760.html
I bet other animals would do the same if they weren't getting high all the time and could figure it out for themselves.
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
Based on a cursory Google search with the terms "bighorn sheep"+"Psychoactive fungi" it would seem they are referring to rumors of a psychoactive lichen that have not been formally identified.
-secondly, you don't want to eat Amanita Muscaria aka fly agaric mushrooms unless you have thorough knowledge of what you're doing. It contains a hepatotoxic compound (hence the deer piss reference in someone else's comment) -and it should not be confused with the Psilocybin containing mushrooms AKA magic mushrooms. They do different things in the brain—The more you know 🌈 🌟
We likely have. Since the poster was very vague i'd argue that what the bighorn sheep eat was probably some mushroom from the psilocybe genus aka "magic mushrooms". —What the reindeer eat is a very different mushroom called Amanita Muscaria aka fly agaric aka toadstool.
It's a bit of a stretch to call A. Muscaria "hallucinogenic" though, because as far as drugs go, the psychoactive ingredient muscimol, doesn't really fall into the same class as Psilocybin. It's more accurately referred to as a 'deliriant.' It also can cause liver damage due to it containing a chemical known as Ibotenic acid. That's why legendarily people collected the urine of reindeer because the reindeers' liver already processed out the ibotenic acid.
If you'd like to know more Hamilton's Pharmacopeia did a whole episodes on A. Muscaria and Psilocybe mushrooms respectively.
There’s an urban legend that koalas spend their entire lives drunk because the eucalyptus leaves they subsist on ferment inside them, though maybe that’s just because they look a bit dopey.
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)
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.