Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High

[lordsummerisle]

Source: Smithsonian

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. Monkeys' attraction to sugar-rich and ethanol-containing fruit, in fact, may explain our own attraction to alcohol, some researchers think.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-seem-to-use-toxic-pufferfish-to-get-high-180948219/

[meow2u3]

1. Update: Conservative dolphins wage a war on toxic pufferfish

[nilram]

2. lol

And those horsies eating skankweed piss me off! Get off my lawn!

[edbermac]

3. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing pufferfish.

[Hekate]

4. That is hilarious: they pass around that pufferfish like a joint, and then float upside down...

...grooving on their own reflections. Duuuude.