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Humans will risk death to ingest or otherwise put things in their body, but not usually because they're tasty, usually because they're addictive. Do dolphins g
by fredley 10y ago
Humans will risk death to ingest or otherwise put things in their body, but not usually because they're tasty, usually because they're addictive.
Do dolphins get high on octopus?
- Nadya 10y agoSome potentially deadly foods are considered a tasty delicacy. See, fugu [0]. Which can be really, really really poisonous [1]. It makes cyanide seem harmless in comparison. Although I just learned from Wikipedia that apparently we figured out how to raise non-poisonous pufferfish. Neat. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugu [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrodotoxin
- maxerickson 10y agoApparently people occasionally choke on live octopus (which is served in Korea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San-nakji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San-nakji ).
- clairity 10y agoyou can get that in koreatown in LA as well (probably elsewhere too but that's where i've had it). the taste is pretty subtle but it's weird that it squirms in your mouth.
- eru 10y agoI had fugu. Taste was OK. I didn't die. Perhaps it's only worth eating for the thrill?
- gozur88 10y agoIt's a competition of sorts. There used to be people where I work who would one-up each other on spicy food. They were long past the point where you could actually taste anything but the "heat", but they wanted to see who could take the most punishment. I have a Japanese friend who explained the fugu thing to me (at least, the way he saw it). Every once in awhile a group of people die when they eat fugu that's not prepared properly. So when you go out with your colleagues you try to work the latest such incident into the conversation, and then you order fugu. The goal is to eat it with the supreme nonchalance while trying to make your coworkers visibly nervous.
- eru 10y agoI have practiced eating spicy food in Singapore. But I was still well within the "this can be tasty" envelope. > The goal is to eat it with the supreme nonchalance while trying to make your coworkers visibly nervous. We eat raw pork mixed with raw eggs and raw onions on a bun in Germany. But nobody there thinks it's particularly dangerous. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett)
- pvaldes 10y agoNot. They don't get high on octopus, they feast on octopus and also play with its preys.
- lgessler 10y agoIs there a source you could cite or are you assuming?
- pvaldes 10y agoI have more than ten years of experience studying cetacean diets and have personally retrieved and identified several octopus, squid and cuttle species in dolphins and seals stomachs. I know what I'm talking about. On the other hand, many people eat octopus, some even eat it alive. If eating octopus would produce the slightest drug effect, I think that we, humans, will know it :-) And yes, of course there is a lot of bibliography available about dolphin behaviour.
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- got2surf 10y agoNot sure about octopus, but dolphins do get high on pufferfish - http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-seem-to-use-toxic-pufferfish-to-get-high-180948219/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-seem-to-us... "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"
- ptha 10y agoThere are reports of dogs repeatedly licking the toxic cane toads in Australia. Some are speculating the dogs are "addicted" to the "high" from a non-fatal dose of the toxin the toads excrete in their sweat. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/dogs-licking-cane-toads-poisoning-australia_n_4459834.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/17/dogs-licking-cane-t...
- flukus 10y agoDo cane toads not excrete enough for a fatal dose? Dogs aren't known for their moderation.