The animal kingdom never ceases to surprise us, sometimes in unexpected ways. Animal behavior is very similar to human behavior. If not, look at the way the dolphins are amused with suspicion, as if they are under the influence of some foreign substance.

After BBC Earth aired their documentary Spy In The Wild where they introduced a robot fish and turtle packed with cameras to spy on a group of dolphins and record their activities, we all discovered a facet of dolphins we didn’t even know about, we didn’t even know about. we imagine .

They recorded the behavior of young dolphins seen swimming around a puffer fish.

They take small bites of the fish, and as if it were a rubber ball, they pass it to each other , they take it out of the water, but it seems that they do not hurt it,

The explanation given to the erratic behavior of the dolphins is that the young of this species like to get high with the toxin that the puffer fish has , or at least that is what it seems, empirically speaking.

Incredible, isn’t it? Apparently, humans aren’t the only ones who consume psychotropic substances to deliberately alter their state of mind, so do the defines.

After all the playful movements that are observed in the documentary, they are perceived as a certain, strange sensation of relaxation that is surprising .

Everything happens after having ingested the toxins produced by those round fish that inflate and deflate as a defense mechanism.

“Dolphins seem to act specifically to get the toxin from the puffer fish and go into a trance state after receiving the toxin,” said Rob Pilley , a zoologist and producer of the documentary.

It is important to clarify that the Zoologist supports what has been stated in view of the fact that the recording is not supported by formal studies, which demonstrate that dolphins use the toxins of puffer fish as drugs for recreational purposes .

“At one point, the dolphins are seen floating just below the surface of the water, seemingly mesmerized by their own reflections,” Pilley adds.

Something that draws the attention of scholars on the subject is that the behavior of these intelligent animals, when faced with the puffer fish that provides them with the desired toxin, is different from that when faced with habitual prey .

Even Pilley makes an analogy with the behavior of horses that eat hallucinogenic herbs, elephants that get drunk on very ripe fruits and monkeys that love fruits rich in sugar, which contain ethanol, just add dolphins.

Definitely, I don’t see dolphins as innocent as before I saw the documentary, but we still love them because they obey their own nature and that’s what’s important.

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