According to an article from
Cracked, there are 7 species who love to get rowdy more than us humans do.
Here's the list,with their drug of choice:
7.
Elephants - Liquor and opiates.
6.
Horses - Spotted locoweed, a type of legume that acts as a mind-altering drug.
5.
Bighorned Sheep - Narcotic lichen: In the vast wilderness of the Canadian Rockies lives a unique species of yellow-green lichen that will fuck you right up.
4.
Reindeer - Amanita muscaria mushrooms.
3.
Bees - Satan's Bathwater (alcohol).
2.
Jaguars - Banisteriopsis caapi, a root found in the jungles of South America: Wild cats looking for a high will seek out
the roots of the caapi plant and gnaw on them until they start to hallucinate.
1.
Capuchin Monkeys (of course #1 would be the closest thing to a human!) - Yes, hallucinogenic millipedes. Yes, both capuchin monkeys in South America and lemurs in Madagascar
have learned how to get high off of passing insects. Apparently, several species of millipedes squirt out a poisonous compound when agitated.
Were you aware of animals getting high and drunk? Can you call their drug/alcohol problem a form of abuse?
Ms. Energy Drink
5. Bighorned Sheep - Narcotic lichen: In the vast wilderness of the Canadian Rockies lives a unique species of yellow-green lichen that will fuck you right up.
Comments (34)
..ahahah.
I have no idea. I've heard of critters getting drunk on fermented fruit, but I don't know if they do it on purpose or if they were just hoping for an apple and got apple wine instead.
the wild getting wild, definitely.
btw, in South America, there is a tree that the fruit ferments before dropping off. Many different types of monkeys hang out around the tree and get drunk once it ferments.
I have seen a segment on animal planet about the monkeys and lemurs rubbing the agitated millipedes all over themselves.
awwww omgosh
Oh wow.
oh my goodness! now the animals are becoming degenerates! we better make sure they don't do this kind of stuff anymore! i say, tags on every animal on earth to make sure they don't do drugs! because if they do they'll go to ANIMAL HELL! or they'll make other animals do drugs! or they'll do more drugs! they're putting their dirty animal money into the hands of animal criminals!
what the fuck.
ROFL. Some of those pictures were funny :)
Well, see, now, gettin' high is just a part of life, man.
That said, take a chill pill ;D
horses can get high- very nice.
I actually wasn't aware of it, but if someone had presented these scenarios, I wouldn't have doubted it that it's possible for animals to be "intoxicated". And no, I don't think you can call it a form of abuse because animals aren't known to have higher thinking like humans do. I think animals are aware of what is going on and that they like the feeling, but they don't have a conscience or social/moral standards. This is pretty funny though! It kind of just points out, in case we all forget, that humans are animals too and definitely not perfect. lol.
thats legit. i wish i was an elephant
ahaha i love the expression on the horse LOL
i have known for a long time that animals also love drugs (that includes the legal ones). i guess we aren´t that different from them. and please do not get me started on the pervy things they have in common with us.
Hahaha, amazing. I guess people shouldn't complain about people getting wrecked...no one's complaining about the animals.
i have never thought about this, and i love it.
aha this is hilarious! and i was just thinking today that it would totally boring to be a wild animal- but now it sounds super sweet! hahah these facts bring true meaning to the term "party animals" :D
this is awesome if it's true. THIS is a good healthkicker post. idk if i'd eat a millipede to get high though
I watched three squirrels die wasted after eating fermented apples and falling out of trees in my yard.
My old cat also knocked over a wine bottle one night and licked it all off the floor by morning. He couldn't walk right for at least 36 hours.
How do elephants get ahold of opiates?
I knew about the millipedes. There was a documentary showing lemur-like furry animals agitating the millipedes in a tree and then scratching themselves and rubbing their tails furiously in their stoned state. It was pretty funny to watch.
that's awesome
thats so funny , i knew that squirrels and some other animals eat fermented fruit and shit and they get drunk .
Are you going to arrest wild animals now?