Animals taking psychoactive plants

[ghosty]

wonderful thread. now, lets see if we cant set up a commitee to stop these pesky self-medicating animals... i just wont tollerate anymore of this nonsense! =P

[wert]

Elephants eat shit loads of acacia.

[ghosty]

... And stand out from other animals in more than just the way they treat their dead..

[Geebus]

My blue cattle dog will frequently lick cane toads. He appears to get very intoxicated from them. His eyes go red and pupils like dinner plates. He seems to have a tolerance to the poison but appears to enjoy the small amounts of bufotenine present. Milk helps the foaming mouth, one day I though he was going to overdose. He was wrecked. Can't stop him though he keeps going back to them

[bogfrog]

^

Just like dobby!

 

I'm sure there must be another thread somewhere on the subject, as I remember posting this vid to it, and seeing a lot more examples.

Will have a hunt around and see if I can find it. The jaguars eating caapi has been most impressive to me. Makes a heck load of sense too.

Funniest example I've personally seen of animals taking psychoactive plants was when my cat became obsessed with a particular garden bed and used to spend ages rolling around in the dirt and then eating what I thought at the time were little clumps of dirt. Later I realised that was where I had grown valerian and she was actually digging up little left over pieces of the roots which had snapped off.

[wert]

The 5 meo would get the doggy happy.

Edited April 21, 2015 by wert

[Strontium Dawg]

My dog used to lick his own junk a lot, that made him pretty happy.