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It makes a nice tea.
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.
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.
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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 🌈 🌟
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
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.
Cedar waxwings get drink on fermented mulberries and roll around on the ground.
And wasps! They get drunk and aggressive in years with lots of overripe fruits.
Meanwhile the Siberian Nomad off to the side waiting for whichever reindeer that gets the shrooms to take a piss 👁️👄👁️
“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.
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
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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?
Sign me up!
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
That’s why they fly upwards into international space first, duh.
They even make those ads with images from accidents, saying “if you drink, don’t fly”.
The Catnip police coming to jail your cat.
ualibis
Apparently the Spanish translate Wallaby. TIL
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.
I guessed the same, but according to Wikipedia:
The name wallaby comes from Dharug walabi or waliba.
I’m not sure how modern anglicisation works but I assume what’s given there is considered the most accurate spelling of the indigenous word. So “wallaby” isn’t too far off.
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Some believe that beer was the trigger to the change from hunter/gatherer to agricultural society.
thats so epic
There’s also a stoned ape theory about the cognitive evolution of human consciousness through consumption of psilocybin mushrooms.
