Dolphins getting high

[Ismene2]

Footage from a new BBC documentary series, "Spy in the Pod," reveals what appears to be dolphins getting high off of pufferfish. Pufferfish produce a potent defensive chemical, which they eject when threatened. In small enough doses, however, the toxin seems to induce "a trance-like state" in dolphins that come into contact with it, the Daily News reports:

The dolphins were filmed gently playing with the puffer, passing it between each other for 20 to 30 minutes at a time, unlike the fish they had caught as prey which were swiftly torn apart.

Zoologist and series producer Rob Pilley said that it was the first time dolphins had been filmed behaving this way.

At one point the dolphins are seen floating just underneath the water's surface, apparently mesmerised by their own reflections.

 

[Shinji Ikari]

That's dope. Dolphins are pretty much the smartest mammals out there besides us (lol) so of course they'd enjoy getting high.

Wonder what a good dose for a human would be? Maybe that's what John C Lilly wanted to ask them...

 

[Pissed_and_messed]

yeah, first and last time and interpretation of the motives was challenged by other delphinologists (delphinologist is real word)

 

[emkee_reinvented]

After discovering Cat s get a 15 min. Opioid high along hallucination s.
[the warning on the seed package, not scientific proof]
When they smell some Catnip, nothing surprises me since, but Dolphin s imo.
More intelligent then human s, and having a apatite for intoxication.

Sort of proof drug use is more natural then society treat s it. And sober is not !

Ps so how was the Dr Seuss, high dose LSD-25, your Dolphin like.
Any interest for a Dolphin ? Taking LSD, i wonder.

 

[emkee_reinvented]

yeah, first and last time and interpretation of the motives was challenged by other delphinologists (delphinologist is real word)

So is Kakalawaka, the challenge was there a winner.
That confirmed or un-confirmed it ? Just curious,
when learned they can sleep with switching left/ right brain.
In order to breath, while sleeping.

Knowing they understand us, and we not them.
Imo they are higher evolved as we.

 

[Pissed_and_messed]

"But it could also be just another day in the dolphin pod — ignore the spiky lethal fish, and the behavior isn’t out of the ordinary."

Dolphins Getting High on Fish Toxin? Or Just a Load of Puff?

<p>A bite of puffer fish can paralyze and kill a human, but dolphins have been seen using the spiky lethal creatures as a chew toy.</p>

www.nbcnews.com

more than ten years and no one has come up with another documentation of event or anything...If I had to bet, I would put my money on "dolphins ain't getting high on pufferfish"

it is tetradotoxin, at best it might have element of novelty, but there is nothing inherently cool about how it...paralyzes nervous system.

 

[GulpingBatteryLiquid]

Dolphins are notorious for trying to rape people as it is, the last thing we need are a bunch of dolphins all messed up on gear

 

[SuperPsych]

Dolphins are notorious for trying to rape people as it is, the last thing we need are a bunch of dolphins all messed up on gear

Dolphins would love GHB