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Animals & Psychoactives
Animals listed in this section may produce chemicals with psychoactive or medicinal properties that are used by humans, or the animals themselves may use psychoactives.
GENUS / SPECIES COMMON NAME CONSTITUENTS
Apis mellifera Bees / Honey Intoxicant
Various Psychoactive Frogs Psychedelic Tryptamines
Bufo alvarius/marinus Psychoactive Toads Psychedelic Tryptamines
Phyllomedusa bicolor Monkey Frog Peptides
Latrodectus mactans Black Widow Poisonous
GENERAL INFORMATION #
Psychoactive Fish Info
Hallucinatory Fish Poisoning, de Haro 2006
A Pointer to a New Hallucinogen of Insect Origin - 1984
BOOKS #
Animals and Psychedelics, by G. Samorini
OFF-SITE RESOURCES
ARTICLES & WRITINGS #
Unconventional substances of abuse: Scorpions and lizards
Salamander Brandy: A Psychedelic Drink Made in Slovenia, 2003
Salamander Brandy (PDF)
Inna bug conference: Bad Shaman Interview
The Use of Unicorn Horn in Medicine (2004)
MEDIA COVERAGE #
Snake venom may hold key to pain relief without side effects - L.A. Times, Oct 3, 2012
Catepillar-Fungus Hybrid Used as Sex Drug - National Geographic, Aug 2012
Inmates Milk, Inject Spider Venom To Get High - AP, Sept 09 2044
Fish that triggers hallucinations found off British coast - Telegraph.co.uk, May 13 2009
Boozing Shrew Drinks "Beer" Every Night - National Geographic, Jul 29 2008
MO man arrested for toad possession - Nov 7 2007
Men hallucinate after eating fish - Practical Fishkeeping, Apr 2006
Drunk birds crash into building's glass - ABC 7, Feb 11 2005
Deadly Spiders as Prison Drugs - Daily Telegraph, Sep 8 2004
Gorillas Use Stimulants and Hallucinogens - 2001
Potent painkiller from poisonous frog - New Scientist, May 20 1992
PBS : The Venom Cure, links and books about animal venom medicines
ELEPHANTS #
"Addicted" elephant heads back to Kunming after heroin detox cure - Xinhua, Sep 4 2008
Drunken Elephants: The Marula Fruit Myth - Science Daily, Dec 5 2005
Drunk elephants kill six people - BBC, Dec 17 2002
South Asia India elephant rampage - BBC, Dec 1993
DOLPHINS #
Do Dolphins Really Get 'High' On Pufferfish? - SFGate, Jan 1 2014
Dolphins getting high on fish toxin? Or just a load of puff? - NBCNews, Jan 3, 2014
What does a dolphin use to get high? A toxic puffer fish that makes them lapse into a trance-like state - Dec 29, 2013
VIDEO #
Animals Intoxicated on Marula Fruit - YouTube
Iraqi Farmer says he's addicted to eating scorpions (News Report, unverified), 2013