Leemurs provoke centipedes to make them excrete their defensive toxin, but then the lemurs just use that toxin to get high and repel mosquitos.

And there are monkeys that steal drinks from beach resorts.

And dolphins like to kick puffer fish around to get high

Jaguars actually eat the leaves of b. capii, which acts as a MAOI in the Ayahuasca brew.

While there is some discussion that the harmala alkaloids in b. capii might also be slightly psychoactive in high doses, the actual main compound in Ayahuasca is DMT, which is certainly very psychoactive, but not bioavailable when consumed orally without a MAOI. Unless the jaguars have figured out how to combine the two and/or brew ayahuasca, I strongly doubt that's their intention and that they'd get comparable effects.

I think the idea stems from the BBC show Weird Nature showing a jaguar eating yage leaves in episode 6, "Peculiar Potions".

I'm not really sold on how well that content was researched.

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.

"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.

The ulabis doesn't really seem to fit the infographic.

Eating opium plants when food is scarce doesn't really fall under the "drug use" category as it seems like it would have to be done.

The other uses were chosen

What? No way bats can fly under influence! They are not above the law.

Meanwhile the Siberian Nomad off to the side waiting for whichever reindeer that gets the shrooms to take a piss 👁️👄👁️

Bees also get drunk. If they try to enter the hive while drunk, they get kicked out to sober up

I am not sure if I am scared of a high jaguar or want to pet it. Maybe both?

Jaguar to his buddy: "Dude, I was so baked I let a hairless monkey pet me. I got the munchies though, so I ate him."

This is documentary video of animals on the savannah eating fermented marula is great

https://youtu.be/AIDJ-sTuoO8

the hung over warthog is so relateable!

ualibis

Humans: hold me beer, joint, shrooms, cactus, and chemistry set

Is there a reason we haven't tried this narcotic fungi?

Shrooms are great, why not try other 'gi?

There’s an urban legend that koalas spend their entire lives drunk because the eucalyptus leaves they subsist on ferment inside them, though maybe that’s just because they look a bit dopey.

And wasps! They get drunk and aggressive in years with lots of overripe fruits.

Amarula logo. Not a bad liquor at all.

the fuck is a ualabi.

(Bad example if they mean wallaby, opium is an invasive species and they only eat it out of desperation. A better one would be the chronically addled eucalyptic meth head that is the koala)

How can jaguars consume ayahuasca if it is a beverage containing various ingredients that work together to be potent? What do they actually consume?

Ayahuasca is a hallucinogen commonly made by the prolonged decoction of the stems of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub, although hundreds of species are used in addition or substitution (See "Preparation" below). P. viridis contains N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a highly psychedelic substance. Although orally inactive, B. caapi is rich with harmala alkaloids, such as harmine, harmaline and tetrahydroharmine (THH), which can act as monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOi). This halts the liver and gastrointestinal metabolism of DMT, allowing it to reach the systemic circulation and the brain, where it activates 5-HT1A/2A/2C receptors in frontal and paralimbic areas.

• Wiki on ayahuasca

Do they consume Psychotria viridis leaves and does the DMT work this way?

[off topic]

Some believe that beer was the trigger to the change from hunter/gatherer to agricultural society.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-of-beer

What about the birds that get drunk off of fermented cherries and smash into a stuff? We need to do something about these FWIs or nobody will be safe.

inb4 catnip

You know that mountain what where Moses did the thing with the burning bush? Hallucinogenic mushrooms.

The Catnip police coming to jail your cat.