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There are not only the psychoactive animals, but also many animals taking psychoactive plants. A highly recommendable book: "Animals and Psychedelics" by Giorgio Samorini Goats "discovered" Coffee (Coffea arabica) and Kath (Catha edulis). In either case shepherds in Ethiopia observed that their goats were very active after eating coffee-berries or kath-leaves and also tasted the plants... Goats, but also dogs like to eat Psilocybe sp. mushrooms and mescalbean- shrubs are often visited (and their berries eaten) by goats. Cats have many drugs like valerian (Valeriana officinalis), cat thyme (Teucrium marum) Teucrium marum is also tranquilizing and nervine on humans and contains nepetalactones: and also catnips (Nepeta cataria, N. fassenii, N. tuberosa), matatabi (Actinidia polygama, the most potent) among others. Reindeers like the fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) and literally hunt it because of the intoxication. Chipmunks, squirrels and cariboos also like to eat the fly agaric. Birds: American robins and other birds intoxicate themselfes with Christmas berries, toyon and firethorn. The nearly extinct pink dove from Mauritius intoxicates itself with fandamon berries and rotate on the earth. Humans have introduced the mongoose on the island of Mauritius and so the intoxicated doves were easy meat for them... Bighorn sheeps eat narcotic lichens in canada. Then there are the famous koalas with their eucalyptus. Iboga-root (Tabernanthe iboga) is eaten (and perhaps discovered) by boars and gorillas. Kava (Piper methysticum)- roots are excavated and eaten by mice (Rattus exculans). Cannabis is eaten by cows, horses, deers, mice, lambs, stags, monkeys and so on. Psychoactive cacti (Astrophytum myriostigma) are eaten by prairie hares. The morning glory (Ipomoea violacea) is eaten by mice and mongooses. There are also many insects which intoxicate themselves by narcotic nectar from some orchids...