Real story: I had a bad pest bug infestation in my garden, so I grew tobacco as a bug break (Yeah, I made some cigars too). Wasn't long before I started seeing lots of tiny holes in the tobacco leaves, and a coroner's van full of dead grasshoppers. A few months later I started seeing bigger grasshoppers getting lethargic near dime size holes. Not dead. just faded. They'd sway back and forth and barely pay attention to me. New meaning to grass-hopper. About a month later, I found birds and squirrels on my fence that were swaying back and forth and barely paying attention to me. One squirrel chittered at me in a way I swear it said "Duuuude". On the plus side my corn and peppers were being completely left alone while the grasshoppers were self deleting or fading off the tobacco, and the squirrels and birds were getting hopped up on hopped up hoppers, while I was rolling my own product.
One of my cousins lives up in Colorado, and after she tossed some old "green" brownies, the opossum who comes around for food named Stank found them in the garbage. She found him outside in the grass absolutely faded. He was alright, and a few hours later he staggered back into his tree near their house, but we always talk about the time Stank got lost in the sauce.
Honestly, of all the animals to do it, an opposum getting completely couchlocked (lawnlocked in this case I guess) makes perfect sense. My dog straight up stuck her snout and mouth in my mouth while I was talking to her to steal a piece of an edible that was stuck on my back molars, and about an hour later I look over at her and she's half sat up staring at me then the ceiling with crazy eyes. I kinda got concerned, cause I was completely blasted, and asked her what was wrong just to be met with the quietest husky whisper possible, then she just spaced out for a second moving her mouth without making a sound and wagging her tail like crazy before flopping over for belly rubs.
"More stoned than a witch in Salem" "Like a human downing nine wine glasses, and they do it without four kids and a failed marriage" This man's analogies are on a whole other level and I am here for it
Fun fact: Catnip is in the same family of plant as peppermint. We had a cat once who had no effect from cat nip but if you walked in with a peppermint or mint gum, he would go out of his way to find it and elevate himself. One day, my mom was trying to defunk our house and put on a pot of water with peppermint oil and the cat had the zoomies like a toddler downing a 50pck of jumbo pixie stix.
I’ve heard that lavender has similar effects on big cats, like lions. Silvervine is also an underappreciated plant for “cat enjoyment”. My cat loves honeysuckle and valerian too. I’ll make tea to help myself sleep and she won’t leave it alone 😂
I can't grow peppermint anymore because my cat will roll around and lie in it, eventually killing it. She's pretty lukewarm about catnip but mint is where it's at-
I knew about a few of these, but I had no idea so many animals go out of their way to get hammered. What a silly world we live in. It’s actually sort of comforting to know just how silly it can be sometimes. I hope you were having as much fun with this video as it looked like you were and as much fun as I had watching. Great video as always.
Makes me feel less lonely on how similar we are to everything(which I know we are related to basically everything even if it's a very small percentage)
I'd want to be faded as fuck all the time too if I knew other animals wanted me dead or to eat me just for solely existing against my will. Oh wait, that's already my life.
considering how stressful being an animal in the wild is i can't really blame them. humans bitch about their life all the time but imagine being on guard for your life 24/7 either so you don't get eaten or so you don't get killed for your territory. the constant threat of a brutal death and it lasts your whole life. thats just one thing too. f*ck that crap.
Biologist with a BSc here. One of my pitches for a master's program involved using catnip as a lure to get fur samples from bobcats and lynx for genetic testing. Its a good way to make sure you get just cats and not things like bears or coyotes with food lures, and don't have to rely on hunting, accidental deaths, or dumb luck to get samples. Plus you get that good feeling of making some cats evening into a great evening. It's also not just cat mint but a few different plants that give them that feline funny feeling.
@@IronPsyde There are previous scientific publications that have used it successfully as a lure in experiments. Effectiveness may vary based on individual and species however.
This is in no way undermining your very good joke - it gave me a jolly old chuckle, so thank you - But I wish to share the events of the original fairy tale. The frog asked to be the princess' personal guest and got so demanding that she snapped and hucked him against a wall. The prince emerged from what was left of the frog. (The moral was less about inner beauty and more about keeping promises. And setting boundaries, I guess?) I hope that you have a good day and enjoy the mental image of a fairytale princess absolutely _launching_ a frog prince so hard she knocked the curse out of him.
Amusingly, catnip also has an effect on dogs. It just makes them calm down and chill out instead of acting high. I found this out a couple years ago when I accidentally adopted a dog who was a lot higher energy, a lot younger, and a lot more anxious than the rescue originally believed. Catnip helped get us through the early days and she’s amazing now.
"At best a child gets a PlayStation and at worst a child witnesses three moose stationed in play" Can we PLEASE applaud this man's way of being able to make jokes out of _every_ word and sentence
Some years ago in our suburban, midwestern old neighborhood, I watched the gray squirrels get plastered on a fungus growing on the elm tree in our yard. The birds gathered in the trees to watch snd I was laughing pretty hard. The squirrel was reacting to things only it could see until it finally tipped over on its back to watch the clouds for about an hour before slowly coming out of it enough to make it way back up the tree for a nap.
I had to avoid giving my one cat catnip, 'cause he'd _always_ show how 'happy' it made him, while naturally rolling all over on his back, making sure everyone saw his pride. Now, I know why.
One of our cats when she gets catnip... she turns into kitty Cujo. Our cat we just lost LOVED catnip. She would get so mad when she had no more. LOL. The video is on RUclips.
Young man, I've been watching your videos for some time now and I just wanna say, you are pretty amazing. I'm a 75 year old man who has seen and heard it all, (that's just an old saying, cause nobody really has), and I must say, you crack me up at the same time you're teaching me some pretty wild stuff. 😀 Any way, thanks for your brilliant content.
I assume the "seen it all" line was made by a person who's seen the extent of what human life and mentality have to offer, which isn't a whole lot but is still very interesting.
Tummy rubs are always a high risk/high reward move unless you know the cat really well and know they'll like it at least some, but a whole lot more so when talking about Jaguars and Leopards. But then, those two big kitties are always high risk/high reward choices whenever there isn't a solid fence/window between you and them. Top tier danger floofs. :grin:
A good friend of mine invited us over for a Christmas party to his rather large home by a hammock area in Florida, and his deck looked out over some beautiful scenery past his driveway. As we were all drinking happy on the deck, we saw about 15 raccoons walk up like they owned the place, and sit down by the trash cans by a lot of dog bowls. They also were drinking happy by the deck. As it turns out, raccoons are pretty happy drunks, who like to prank each other. It was adorable. He started putting the last bits left in wine bottles, and the beer cans with a few drops left out for the raccoons, when he noticed they stopped getting into his trash cans once they dragged out all the alcohol. Sure enough, there they were, as drunk as we were, leaving his trash alone.
My friend and I witnessed a VERY drunk black squirrel who became a Tarzan-like flying manic banshee all over one big and two smaller trees next to a small apple tree. It was a very long 30 minute show we will NEVER forget. He wasn't rabid, just zonked out of his mind. We were in such awe staring and laughing out of the kitchen window, we forgot to film it. The deer who visit the same apple tree just sway and have issues balancing as we've all seen in many clips. Squirrela, however, was on a whole other level. Pretty sure he was also hallucinating. He was fine the next day. @NorthForkFisherman He zigzagged between trunks and branches, then would stop, do a quick glare behind him, and race the same way toward his offender who ( by some miracle 😜🤣) wasn't there on arrival. It was a vertical version of a cat chasing the demonic red dot, but on a whole other level (literally).
@@NorthForkFisherman He zigzagged between trunks and branches, then would stop, do a quick stare behind him, and race the same way toward his offender who ( by some miracle 😜🤣) wasn't there on arrival. It was a vertical version of a cat chasing the demonic red dot, but on a whole other level (literally).
8:18 I LOVE the image of the fact that chimps raid *Illegal* brewing setups. Like imagine what that's like at the police department "Hey Chief, we've got reports of a suspected illegal brewery in-" "Let the chimps handle it." "....w h a t-" " *Let. The Chimps. Handle it.* " "uh, yessir!"
9:43 2 years of watching your content and that's the first time I've seen you smile/laugh or really show any kind of emotion apart from "casual", it was honestly a bit of a surprise to me! 😅
I always wondered about kittens and catnip since I've owned cats my whole life. I noticed an array of reactions in the adults, where as the kittens never seemed to care about the catnip, they just liked playing with the toys containing it. Of the cats that I've had surprisingly only one was totally indifferent to catnip as an adult though. Half of them would huff it for a little bit and start bouncing off the walls like they were on crack, and the other half of them licked it until there was a puddle of drool to pass out in.
As a Malaysian I can tell you some more facts about the treeshrew: - Malaysians regularly called them "tupai", or squirrel, even thought it's not really a squirrel. - They're common in cities too, adept and adaptable - They usually hide in drains ("longkang" in Malay) Also, the a in "bertam" is pronounced like the u in "dummy", Malay language has very different spelling than English. Other than that, very nice video, I like
The fact I laugh this hard can let my 7 and 4 year old watch with their daddy, is truly appreciated. Clean language, amazing delivery. You, my friend, might do well at stand up. Thank you for the great times.
Dude, the smile, and slight chuckle during the monkey part was a shock to my system. I had to rewatch it a few times. Always so straight faced, so it was nice to see a little break in that. And, overall, just a really fun video.
the animals should be thanking our God they weren't caught slipping while being high. We humans have the comfort of our own homes etc etc to do drugs at our leisure.. but an animal like a leopard can't AFFORD to get intoxicated.....
That “faded like an NBA’s legend” into the “oh my God” transition literally almost killed me. 💀 I was taking a drink of water and came up spluttering all over my kitchen counter 😂😂😂
Love that tshirt! P.S. You just explained for me why, when I bought some catnip toys for a couple of kittens we adopted, the toys were ignored by the kittens, but our male full-grown cat went crazy with them.
I mean.. my kittens were tearing the stuffings out of the catnip and silvervine toys I got for my older kitter. Then again.. they do that to all their toys. But the catnip and silvervine especially!
This is thee best animal channel ever, period! The writing is on another level, the wit of this man is legend. His research is unmatched. I've learned more about animals from this channel than every other source in my life. He delivers knowledge and information in the most amazing way...🌹
there was an interesting experiment with spiderwebs from a spider on different drugs, from caffeine to LSD and all the webs they build and up being perfect examples of what each drug does to the body. Fun fact: the THC spider web was emaculate, but took forever
This is not quite true information. NASA helped conduct an experiment in 1995 with several different drugs. They didn't give LSD but other drugs including marijuana, the normal web and marijuana web were different, with the marijuana web being less complete and its lines not centred. It did affect its ability to make a web but affected it least out of all of the drugs tested. Please look up the study properly, don't continue the spread of disinformation you agree with that you have read on social media.
Your uploads are always at a time when I most need them. Rough day, 1 hour long client call about how he didn't like the location we shot his music video at, half-hearted lunch and dinner but I see my dude posted a video and all that goes to rest.
Swede here with a little explanation of the whole elk/moose thing: The iconic, majestic forest dweller Alces alces is known as a moose in North America (actually the sub-species Alces alces americana) and an elk in Europe. The word elk, like the Swedish word älg (pronounced /elj/), is taken from the Latin alces while in North America elk is used for an entirely different animal - a kind of deer, Cervus elaphus, otherwise known as a Wapiti. Hope this helps or enlightens somebody. Anyway, love your videos man!
in europe? we call them Los in Czech Republic, pretty sure every language in europe have its own word for them, using english word for representing europe seems strange tbh
@@Enkabard I meant if somebody in Europe would need to use the English word for them we would use "elk", as I pointed out in my original comment the Swedish word is "älg". Of course in every day life all of Europe does not speak English.
@@Fregler again, im not sure about that. I would pick word moose before elk, i guess this is so minor detail, but i wonder how many in europe would do the same, i could go into detail why but ... meh
True fact: when I was a teenager, the 'cane toad menace' became a thing outside of Australia for the first time, and my friends and I used to go around to pet stores asking them if they sold cane toads just to troll the managers/owners and see them blow a gasket. About half of them were confused not knowing why the hell kids would be asking for an obscure frog, the other half reacted just as satisfyingly as you could expect. If only it was the age of cheap digital cams or cellphone cams. We could have been Tik Tok famous with some of the absurd reactions we got to the question.
When I worked as a park's gardener, I saw a squirrel repeatedly running up into a Rhododendron bush, chewing a flower bud before doing a backward loop-the-loop and crashing on the ground. It did this over and over again, my chargehand telling me squirrels get high on them. Very sharp, witty dialogue by the way. I don't normally subscribe to wildlife channels (although I do love wildlife), but the presentation here is a cut above the usual. I'm not surprised you've attracted a large following.
Rhododendron are poisonous - they can cause essentially heart failure and respiratory suppression. That squirrel was speedrunning its existence apparently
So as a former zookeeper I have to say these "experiments" are real and if your a zookeeper worth half your weight you learn about this stuff because some of these animals will hide fruits and stuff and actually wait for it to ferment and eat it. (Poor little spider monkeys)
The fact that he actually chuckled in a video gives me more joy than it should, but it just tickled me😂 Edit: Just found out catnip works on hyenas too. I remember him saying something hyenas being more closely related to cats than dogs. There's the proof😂😂😂
I *LOVE* Casual Geographic videos!😻The observations and analogies are spot-on and LOL funny! I also enjoy the way things are reworded to avoid censorship because the creativity of the wording elevates the videos to a whole other level of funny. Such a joy to watch! Please continue entertaining us and educating us about these magnificent creatures. Thank you so much for all you do!💜😽💋
@@mndiaye_97 I'd really like to see more compilations of your shorter TikTok videos,like yo did years ago.I'd go and watchem over on that site,but I have standards.
@@mndiaye_97 Like your videos but whats with the misinfo about dolphins? This is from 2013 "It sounds too awesome to be true-which means it probably is. I’m not convinced. Dolphins are curious and intelligent, so I have no doubt that they would investigate a strange animal like a puffer. They might see what happens, explore the texture, taste, or smell of this novel creature in their midst, as they do in this video: But do they intentionally harass them to get high? I doubt it. I guess it’s possible-but if they do, they’re playing a very deadly game, and one that I doubt is much fun for anyone involved. When harassed, pufferfish first are true to their names and enlarge their bodies to make themselves less palatable. But if that’s not enough, they have the ability to secrete tetrodotoxin (TTX) to ward off potential predators. The argument being made by The Sunday Times (and the filmmakers, it seems) is that dolphins are intentionally using TTX to get “high”. I just don’t buy it. A curious bunch accidentally indulging in a little puffer poison? Sure. But I’m to believe that dolphins are using tetrodotoxin regularly to get baked? Or even worse, include these toxic treats as a part of their “diet“? No way. Not even dolphins are crazy enough to take that risk. Tetrodotoxin simply doesn’t make sense as a drug (and let’s be honest-if it did, humans would be snorting it off bathroom counters already). In very, very, very low doses, tetrodotoxin causes numbness, tingling, and the slight lightheadedness that fugu, the Japanese preparation of raw pufferfish flesh, is known for. I guess it’s possible to see how one might relate these mild effects to the “high” feeling that comes from THC, the main ingredient in marijuana*, but it’s a stretch to say the least. Every illicit drug has one thing in common: they alter minds. It’s right there in the definition of narcotic. Tetrodotoxin, however, doesn’t cross the blood-brain barrier; it doesn’t change perception or enhance sensation. People get poisoned with TTX every year, and there’s a reason you don’t hear anyone describing the experience as a ‘high’: that’s not how tetrodotoxin works. Tetrodotoxin is a potent neurotoxin that shuts down sodium channels, silencing neural activity. In low doses, it numbs. In slightly higher ones, it paralyzes. In between it slows heart rate, plummets blood pressure, and causes respiratory distress. It’s a poison, not a party drug. There is nothing fun about it. Perhaps even more importantly, though, tetrodotoxin doesn’t make sense as a narcotic because it is far more deadly than any of the substances used recreationally. For all the stink you hear about illicit drugs, they’re harmless in comparison. THC is a gentle compound that acts as a relaxant and appetite stimulant. For a person to die from orally ingesting marijuana, they would have to eat 1 lb or so of the most potent pot on the market in one sitting (which is probably why there has never been a case of fatal THC overdose). Tetrodotoxin, on the other hand, killed 179 people and poisoned another 467 in Japan alone from 1974 to 1983. Milligram-for-milligram, tetrodotoxin is 120,000 times as deadly as cocaine, 40,000 times as deadly as meth, and more than 50 million times as deadly as THC. It is tens to hundreds of times more lethal than the venoms of the most notorious animals in the world including the widow spiders and the black mamba. It’s more potent than VX nerve gas, formaldehyde, or even ricin. It is, quite literally, one of the most toxic compounds known to man. It is not a substance to be taken lightly. Even if we give the dolphins their weight advantage, as mammals, it still would only take a few milligrams of TTX to kill one-a dose which, when provoked, puffers can secrete. Once poisoned, it can take up to an hour to begin feeling the effects, which start with numbness, tingling and lightheadedness. Quickly, things get much, much worse. Paralysis spreads from the face throughout the body, to the point where any movement becomes difficult and even resting is described as uncomfortable. Muscles weaken, speech slurs, and breathing becomes labored. Within an hour or two, victims can lose feeling and control of their entire body. Around four to six hours after a lethal dose, the victim’s respiratory system succumbs. Sublethal doses are no picnic, either. Some have described becoming completely paralyzed head to toe, unable to move yet fully conscious, an aware and alert mind trapped in a motionless body. Because TTX doesn’t cross the blood-brain barrier, the mind is clear, unaffected. “The victim, although completely paralyzed, may be conscious and in some cases completely lucid until shortly before death,” says the FDA. It’s a particularly terrifying state of mind referred to by physicians as cerebromedullospinal disconnection, pseudocoma, or, most simply, locked-in syndrome. I find it tough to believe that dolphins are so careful that they can walk the fine line between tingly lips and maddening paralysis, especially when different individuals of the same species of pufferfish can carry vastly different amounts of toxin in their tissues. Instead, what I hear in the BBC’s description is naive animals learning a hard lesson: soon after ‘puffing’ on puffer, young male dolphins were filmed behaving strangely, even near-motionless at the surface. It doesn’t sound like a happy high; it sounds like the first stages of tetrodotoxin-induced paralysis, with the dolphins instinctively (and perhaps luckily) hovering in shallow water to retain the ability to breathe. It seems unlikely that they interact with puffers like this routinely. Even if the dolphins were pleasurably intoxicated, the inability to react quickly would leave them dangerously exposed to predators like large sharks, not to mention the inherent risks to their lives associated with the toxin involved. While dolphins may play with puffers to see them expand, or even foolishly put one in their mouths on occasion, I doubt they’re “using” them with any regularity. Instead, the young male dolphins that were caught on camera by this crew probably played a little too rough with their toy and paid an uncomfortable price for their mistake. Lucky for them, only a hidden camera was watching."
honestly I love the change in you in general. What I mean by that is usually you don't show any emotions and a straight face, but when you were talking about the frat boy monkeys you smiled and laughed a little. Good on ya Brother glad to see you seem happier than usual.
I love your channel man! You manage to condense A LOT of information into about 15 minutes, which is a manageable portion for most people, all while being fresh and delightfully witty. Bravo!
@@ytyoungrichnhigh yes, the movie was inspired by the real life one not based so it wasn't 100% accurate, in reality the bear didn't kill anyone it just ran for a few miles before succumbing to the overdose.
Finding an animal show this funny *& informative* is everything my childhood was looking for with all the witty adult humour my grown ass can't help but cackle all the way through...
Dogs are also mildly affected by catnip, though it works more as a sedative and stomach soother in their case due to it's relation to mint. (Possibly why cats also like it when you have minty fresh breath.)
I appreciate you and the way you present these. Giving people fair warning and a chance to save their hearts any turmoil by explicitly calling the ad break shows the bigness of your character. I watched to the end, but my girlfriend appreciates things like this, cuz she loves animals and enjoys your content yet understandably always refuses to watch the parts that upset her. So I'm glad you provide examples for both ends of the spectrum (of wholesomeness to brutality in the animal kingdom), because in reality it's like that. Giving us the option to watch parts encompassing either one or both ends of the spectrum is refreshing. You're evidently yourself in all your videos, and I'm glad for that. Cheers
Lol, there was a case on Bondi Vet about two little dogs, and one of them was foaming at the mouth in the backyard, which was completely enclosed. Found out that the dog foaming was the one who was licking cane toads that were treading through the yard, and her doing that was basically encouraging her sister to try it too. The only solution to it was to put mesh around the bottoms of the fence and keep a closer eye on the dogs. (They also didn't like the sound of air horns, so they used an air horn as a deterrent to keep them away from the toads. If they didn't listen, they would be put back in the laundry room as punishment.)
It happens. Every year during a certain time of the year, we would hear birds slamming into our windows and doors. Big thanks in part to the neighbors who had crab apple trees and some form of cherry trees. They would get drunk or trip off it.
As a stoner cat owner it makes me happy to know that my cats are getting the best kitty ganja out there since I grew them catnip in my garden and give it to them fresh(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
Seeing how my cat pulls out the claws (lovingly, I'm sure) real fast when catnip is introduced, I was mighty impressed by the last clip where they're so close to the big kitty when spraying the good stuff.
Same. My kitty never (absolutely never) gets aggressive or uses her claws. Even when playing she'll take care not to swat at you. Except when you give her catnip. She will do *everything* to get her catnip toy. If you have it in your hands, she'll claw and bite to get to the toy. It's not malicious, she just wants the toy and just kinda forgets the fact that you are a human who experiences pain, but i'd never walk around a big cat enclosure with a bottle of nip spray in my pocket.
The way how that tiger wouldn't stop sniffing the bug repellant, then started getting tipsy, and still didn't stop is probably the reason Tigger is the only one
I worked at a small farm once where the pigs were allowed to roam the orchard. In fall they regularly sought out fallen and half-rotten apples to get drunk and lie in the sun half asleep all day. It was really funny to watch and just made them even more relatable lol
This is by far the most entertaining video you've done. I had a huge grin on my face for 15 minutes straight and some of your lines just utterly sent me.
I'm in Memphis, TN and noticed a very odd acting bird that had managed to get onto my Grandmother's screened in porch. He was a Cedar Waxwing. She had cedars in her yard which the berries crack when frozen, heat up, fermint, and the birds get drunk. We read about them not long after the encounter with the very hung over and very pissed off bird I evicted gently from the porch, with a towel. He was Not happy about being disturbed!
During a party, our family dog (who was a puppy at tthe time) got drunk by lapping up a puddle of spilt beer my parents thought they cleaned up in time. It was very clear this wasn't the case as she started stumbling. When the alcohol really set in she just layed in the middle of the floor until she conked out. The morning after she was hungover and needed some peanut butter with advil in it. After that, she wouldn't go near cans or bottles with the only exception being empty water bottles, which she liked to chew the caps off of, she even taught our second dog to leave cans and bottles alone.
The funniest thing is that when I took a holiday around Barbados the cruise liner visited St. Kitts for a few days and depending on where you go there are locals who will tell you not to leave your alcohol unattended because the monkeys WILL steal it. Some hotels and resorts have signs posted to let tourists know. Even seen a few groups of monkeys at the resort I was in hang around in nearby trees waiting for the right time to run off with martinis, pina coladas, beer, wine, all sorts of hard liquor, you name it. Another thing that you see in Mexico and around the Caribbean are sugar traps for insects. People will fill glasses and bins full of sugar and it attracts insects, who I assume either get stuck in the mixture, drown, or get drunk on it to the point they can't escape.
Absolutely criminal the kereru werent brought up more, they are hilarious when drunk. Also the fact they're the only bird left in NZ that can eat certain berries (due to size) means they get drunk way more often than most birds
6:29 So what you're telling me is that Rouge the bat could drink Sonic and his friends under the table and still have the presence of mind to crack open a safe and steal the jewels inside Damn
I remember watching a real life documentary snippet of a huge group of animals (monkeys, birds, elephants, gazelle-looking things) flocking to a grove of trees at a certain time of year, binging on the fallen fruit, and then getting so drunk that they just sorta laid on the ground and stared at the clouds 😆
You my friend are the answer to the terrifying question. "Who do I watch when attenborough passes away". I love your content mate. It's funny and educational, witty and purposeful. Amazing stuff, imma long time fan 🍻
5:12. Those are cedar waxwings. They have red, orange or yellow wax like tips on their wings that may depend on there diet. live in western Canada and have raised a young Waxwing that fell out of its nest in mid summer years ago. They are really a beautiful creatures. They often eat fermented berries because they Waxwings breed later in the spring and the berries are off by that point.
12:34 Ohhhhhhh, I DIDNT KNOW THAT!! I thought my dog was just stupid licking those cane toads but him trying to get high I didn’t even think about. We really had to make sure he didn’t do it as we knew about the poison. Thankfully my dog lived to almost 15 years old
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Real story: I had a bad pest bug infestation in my garden, so I grew tobacco as a bug break (Yeah, I made some cigars too). Wasn't long before I started seeing lots of tiny holes in the tobacco leaves, and a coroner's van full of dead grasshoppers. A few months later I started seeing bigger grasshoppers getting lethargic near dime size holes. Not dead. just faded. They'd sway back and forth and barely pay attention to me. New meaning to grass-hopper. About a month later, I found birds and squirrels on my fence that were swaying back and forth and barely paying attention to me. One squirrel chittered at me in a way I swear it said "Duuuude". On the plus side my corn and peppers were being completely left alone while the grasshoppers were self deleting or fading off the tobacco, and the squirrels and birds were getting hopped up on hopped up hoppers, while I was rolling my own product.
@Oprator pizza?
"Grassed" hoppers.
Too funny PLEASE tell me this happened in Australia? It sounds like a very Australian thing
@@lizwildcatmunro2460 lol Colorado
Honestly, tracks
One of my cousins lives up in Colorado, and after she tossed some old "green" brownies, the opossum who comes around for food named Stank found them in the garbage. She found him outside in the grass absolutely faded. He was alright, and a few hours later he staggered back into his tree near their house, but we always talk about the time Stank got lost in the sauce.
"lost in the sauce" lol
Honestly, of all the animals to do it, an opposum getting completely couchlocked (lawnlocked in this case I guess) makes perfect sense.
My dog straight up stuck her snout and mouth in my mouth while I was talking to her to steal a piece of an edible that was stuck on my back molars, and about an hour later I look over at her and she's half sat up staring at me then the ceiling with crazy eyes. I kinda got concerned, cause I was completely blasted, and asked her what was wrong just to be met with the quietest husky whisper possible, then she just spaced out for a second moving her mouth without making a sound and wagging her tail like crazy before flopping over for belly rubs.
@@burninsherman1037 .....tf?
@@burninsherman1037 Yep, that's definitely sounds like something that happened when you were high.
Who tf throws out weed brownie
"More stoned than a witch in Salem"
"Like a human downing nine wine glasses, and they do it without four kids and a failed marriage"
This man's analogies are on a whole other level and I am here for it
"More blazed than a witch in Salem" probably would have been more on point.
@@dangerousdays2052 witches in salem didn't get set on fire. they were hanged or in one case crushed to death with stones.
Is he talking from experience lol
"He's in a Galaxy, and it ain't this one"
@@abiean222 didn't they also get drowned?
Fun fact: Catnip is in the same family of plant as peppermint. We had a cat once who had no effect from cat nip but if you walked in with a peppermint or mint gum, he would go out of his way to find it and elevate himself. One day, my mom was trying to defunk our house and put on a pot of water with peppermint oil and the cat had the zoomies like a toddler downing a 50pck of jumbo pixie stix.
😂 I've got a cat who insists on munching only one plant, Anise Hyssop. Technically in the mint family so makes sense
I’ve heard that lavender has similar effects on big cats, like lions. Silvervine is also an underappreciated plant for “cat enjoyment”. My cat loves honeysuckle and valerian too. I’ll make tea to help myself sleep and she won’t leave it alone 😂
😂😵💫🤣💀
I can't grow peppermint anymore because my cat will roll around and lie in it, eventually killing it. She's pretty lukewarm about catnip but mint is where it's at-
@@nemesi55Lavender burning sticks can also have a very calming effect on cats. And humans I guess.
His play on words are ALWAYS on point.
@Chad 007 This is SPAM
He had geniune gift for the right phrase.
honestly why i watch his videos. can always find animal education videos on YT, can't get these awesome turns of phrase elsewhere.
Like your username glad I found this creator
@@jamallabarge2665answer to a depression expression tbr
I knew about a few of these, but I had no idea so many animals go out of their way to get hammered. What a silly world we live in. It’s actually sort of comforting to know just how silly it can be sometimes. I hope you were having as much fun with this video as it looked like you were and as much fun as I had watching. Great video as always.
Makes me feel less lonely on how similar we are to everything(which I know we are related to basically everything even if it's a very small percentage)
I'd want to be faded as fuck all the time too if I knew other animals wanted me dead or to eat me just for solely existing against my will. Oh wait, that's already my life.
@@luckyy3691 lol who wants you dead or to eat you?
considering how stressful being an animal in the wild is i can't really blame them. humans bitch about their life all the time but imagine being on guard for your life 24/7 either so you don't get eaten or so you don't get killed for your territory. the constant threat of a brutal death and it lasts your whole life. thats just one thing too. f*ck that crap.
And there are more examples too, like some species of ant do drugs too.
Biologist with a BSc here. One of my pitches for a master's program involved using catnip as a lure to get fur samples from bobcats and lynx for genetic testing. Its a good way to make sure you get just cats and not things like bears or coyotes with food lures, and don't have to rely on hunting, accidental deaths, or dumb luck to get samples. Plus you get that good feeling of making some cats evening into a great evening. It's also not just cat mint but a few different plants that give them that feline funny feeling.
That’s such an interesting idea!
Was one of them silvervine?
I am pretty sure only domestic house cats crave catnip. I recall watching a video of a person giving it to big cats to see if they liked it.
@@IronPsyde There are previous scientific publications that have used it successfully as a lure in experiments. Effectiveness may vary based on individual and species however.
I know there are some housecats that have little to no reaction to catnip. I suspect it's the same with larger cats.
Welp. It's 2024. I'm 68 years old, and the princess kissing the toad and seeing a handsome prince in it's place, now makes perfect sense! LOL
I wish you didn't tell me that but at the same time I feel like I have become a more enlightened individual.
This is in no way undermining your very good joke - it gave me a jolly old chuckle, so thank you - But I wish to share the events of the original fairy tale. The frog asked to be the princess' personal guest and got so demanding that she snapped and hucked him against a wall. The prince emerged from what was left of the frog. (The moral was less about inner beauty and more about keeping promises. And setting boundaries, I guess?)
I hope that you have a good day and enjoy the mental image of a fairytale princess absolutely _launching_ a frog prince so hard she knocked the curse out of him.
@@Whatlanderthat makes it even funnier
Seeing him smile for once strikes fear into even the most evil people
I love how it looks like he's casually got a lollipop in his hand & just stopped by to drop facts for a minute
😂😂😂
@@Horseluvver even better
9:40
Her was a documentary about this years ago. Apparently jaguars also chew coca leaf.
im 1000th like
Amusingly, catnip also has an effect on dogs. It just makes them calm down and chill out instead of acting high. I found this out a couple years ago when I accidentally adopted a dog who was a lot higher energy, a lot younger, and a lot more anxious than the rescue originally believed. Catnip helped get us through the early days and she’s amazing now.
Ummm idk if you’ve ever smoked weed but calm and chilled out sounds like high to me
@@twurtle12hd39Every person I've ever met with anxiety, depression, or mental health problems use it to help
@@twurtle12hd39mint, it's mint to them, a chill pill perchance
Works for humans very calming too as a tea
@@twurtle12hd39i think he was comparing it to cats, who act crazy on catnip
"At best a child gets a PlayStation and at worst a child witnesses three moose stationed in play"
Can we PLEASE applaud this man's way of being able to make jokes out of _every_ word and sentence
He’s 15 minutes of amazing *every* time!
Casual Geographic's the best! Informative AND hilarious!
Yeah that was solid workplay.
Yo he is great I love watching his channel
That child is smart though
“Santa Might’ve Been A Mushroom”, a new Christmas banger classic
“Or A Shaman”
Santa might've been a mushroom, singing up, up to the moon.
(Makes more sense singing into in one of the Christmas songs idk I forgot them)
Awesome video as always! Thanks so much for using some cute clips of Tank & Binta and their catnip endeavors 😂❤🐆🦁
You own those cats?!
She does and her vids are rlly cute
@@jadentetzlaff1108 yeah she owns leapords, jaguars, lions, and probably more.
thank you for taking care of the big bubs the way you do~
I LOVE Tank. biggest boi *_*
Some years ago in our suburban, midwestern old neighborhood, I watched the gray squirrels get plastered on a fungus growing on the elm tree in our yard. The birds gathered in the trees to watch snd I was laughing pretty hard. The squirrel was reacting to things only it could see until it finally tipped over on its back to watch the clouds for about an hour before slowly coming out of it enough to make it way back up the tree for a nap.
LMAO! 😂😂
@@Toomuchbullshittreplace "squirrel" with "crackhead" and you've just described the daily life of a new yorker
Homie living the vida loca
Did it steal your Walkman and play Pink Floyd while waving a flashlight around and moaning OHHH WOWWW MANNN?
I had to avoid giving my one cat catnip, 'cause he'd _always_ show how 'happy' it made him, while naturally rolling all over on his back, making sure everyone saw his pride.
Now, I know why.
I regret reading this comment
Bruh
Yep, I had to stop giving my cat catnip. He gave new meaning to the word tweaker
One of our cats when she gets catnip... she turns into kitty Cujo. Our cat we just lost LOVED catnip. She would get so mad when she had no more. LOL. The video is on RUclips.
@@ButtonsCasey
Was so fixed on Catnip she got angry when it was finished 😅
Young man,
I've been watching your videos for some time now and I just wanna say, you are pretty amazing.
I'm a 75 year old man who has seen and heard it all, (that's just an old saying, cause nobody really has), and I must say, you crack me up at the same time you're teaching me some pretty wild stuff. 😀
Any way, thanks for your brilliant content.
I assume the "seen it all" line was made by a person who's seen the extent of what human life and mentality have to offer, which isn't a whole lot but is still very interesting.
This comment made me smile. I'm glad people of all ages can learn new things about the world.
Yes. I am 60 and my pose was Casual geographic. Rules.... I find his stuff refreshing.. casual is pretty much his for'te
I thought you were gonna go, "there's no need to feel down" 😎
I love it when generational gaps are bridged
I have never felt more in tune with nature until I discovered this channel.
Me too. Turns out we aren't that much detached from natural behaviour.
Safari Sammie giving the jag belly rubs while saying "chubby belly chubby belly" is the wholesome side of YT
Tummy rubs are always a high risk/high reward move unless you know the cat really well and know they'll like it at least some, but a whole lot more so when talking about Jaguars and Leopards.
But then, those two big kitties are always high risk/high reward choices whenever there isn't a solid fence/window between you and them. Top tier danger floofs. :grin:
You do realize Safari Sammy is working for one of those "roadside zoos" right?
@@DirectorOfChaos9292 Exactly. She works for a Tiger King competitor that's done the same horrible things to animals
A good friend of mine invited us over for a Christmas party to his rather large home by a hammock area in Florida, and his deck looked out over some beautiful scenery past his driveway. As we were all drinking happy on the deck, we saw about 15 raccoons walk up like they owned the place, and sit down by the trash cans by a lot of dog bowls. They also were drinking happy by the deck. As it turns out, raccoons are pretty happy drunks, who like to prank each other. It was adorable. He started putting the last bits left in wine bottles, and the beer cans with a few drops left out for the raccoons, when he noticed they stopped getting into his trash cans once they dragged out all the alcohol. Sure enough, there they were, as drunk as we were, leaving his trash alone.
That's adorable.
we're not reading all that
@@TheProtagonistDiesyes, yes we are
@@TheProtagonistDiesand that's an issue.
Hahaha, that's awesome!
And; Does Florida really have a Hammock District?!
"Get R Kelly'd by the right reindeer and you'll both believe you can fly" is the most insane line I've ever heard
I am in absolute admiration of your wordsmithery. Always a pleasure to listen to you speak about animals.
My friend and I witnessed a VERY drunk black squirrel who became a Tarzan-like flying manic banshee all over one big and two smaller trees next to a small apple tree. It was a very long 30 minute show we will NEVER forget. He wasn't rabid, just zonked out of his mind. We were in such awe staring and laughing out of the kitchen window, we forgot to film it. The deer who visit the same apple tree just sway and have issues balancing as we've all seen in many clips. Squirrela, however, was on a whole other level. Pretty sure he was also hallucinating. He was fine the next day.
@NorthForkFisherman He zigzagged between trunks and branches, then would stop, do a quick glare behind him, and race the same way toward his offender who ( by some miracle 😜🤣) wasn't there on arrival. It was a vertical version of a cat chasing the demonic red dot, but on a whole other level (literally).
Bullwinkle's boy was just high as balls and thought he could fly?
@@NorthForkFisherman He zigzagged between trunks and branches, then would stop, do a quick stare behind him, and race the same way toward his offender who ( by some miracle 😜🤣) wasn't there on arrival. It was a vertical version of a cat chasing the demonic red dot, but on a whole other level (literally).
@@victrola2007 Stories like this are the best reason that everyone carries a camera today. I would have loved to have seen this.
fckn hilarious! I wish I could've seen it.
I would love to see like what level did this actually go to 🤣
Y'all can tell just how much fun Casual had with this one. Almost as much fun as all the animals who made this vid possible.
8:18 I LOVE the image of the fact that chimps raid *Illegal* brewing setups. Like imagine what that's like at the police department
"Hey Chief, we've got reports of a suspected illegal brewery in-"
"Let the chimps handle it."
"....w h a t-"
" *Let. The Chimps. Handle it.* "
"uh, yessir!"
9:43 2 years of watching your content and that's the first time I've seen you smile/laugh or really show any kind of emotion apart from "casual", it was honestly a bit of a surprise to me! 😅
I thought it was adorable 😂🤍 (I don’t mean this in a creepy way 😭)
Usually Casual Geographer
@Chad 007 I don't get it
My reaction was "Wait, he is not a robot that tells us disturbing animal facts!?!?!"
Fully brightened my day by 150%
I always wondered about kittens and catnip since I've owned cats my whole life. I noticed an array of reactions in the adults, where as the kittens never seemed to care about the catnip, they just liked playing with the toys containing it. Of the cats that I've had surprisingly only one was totally indifferent to catnip as an adult though. Half of them would huff it for a little bit and start bouncing off the walls like they were on crack, and the other half of them licked it until there was a puddle of drool to pass out in.
There is a gene that let's cats enjoy catnip, but 1 out of 3 cats don't have it
@@thaliacrafts407 that makes more sense, I was always under the impression that it was closer to 50/50. Thank you!
Lol I was thinking you found the one asexual cat out there but the gene explanation seems sound
@@sadesemolu
We stan
@@sadesemolu I stan my fellow aces
As a Malaysian I can tell you some more facts about the treeshrew:
- Malaysians regularly called them "tupai", or squirrel, even thought it's not really a squirrel.
- They're common in cities too, adept and adaptable
- They usually hide in drains ("longkang" in Malay)
Also, the a in "bertam" is pronounced like the u in "dummy", Malay language has very different spelling than English. Other than that, very nice video, I like
Melayu ke bang😊
@@Zoro20144 Ya betul, assalamualaikum. Selamat berpuasa =)
@@AKseorangmanusia Selamat berpuasa Juga bang mlm ni jangan lupe terawih ☺️
Thank you for the tree shrew facts!! :D
Maylay is a weird language. Fascinating, but weird.
The fact I laugh this hard can let my 7 and 4 year old watch with their daddy, is truly appreciated. Clean language, amazing delivery. You, my friend, might do well at stand up. Thank you for the great times.
Dude, the smile, and slight chuckle during the monkey part was a shock to my system. I had to rewatch it a few times. Always so straight faced, so it was nice to see a little break in that. And, overall, just a really fun video.
9:42 made my day a little more happy seeings you smile in the video. You always seem so serious, so this kinda is wholesome.
That moose was high in two regards at least.
@Txxx Cxxx no, I know how to make a pizza.
@txxxcxxxpizza😂😂😂😂😅😮😮😢😊🍕 🍕 🍕
When "up a tree" is not a euphemism.
@Don't Read My Profile Photo I won't.
@@magallanesagustin4952M
The analogies, the videos, the tiny mic combine to make next level comedy 😀
ruclips.net/user/shortsBmc9NFfhx74?si=ewd-Xj0iReqJ4piZ
Life’s stressful, ain’t no creature safe from the need to escape it all XD
PREACH 😂😂😂
the animals should be thanking our God they weren't caught slipping while being high. We humans have the comfort of our own homes etc etc to do drugs at our leisure.. but an animal like a leopard can't AFFORD to get intoxicated.....
@@ytyoungrichnhighOr rather, they should be lucky they're getting high and only got caught by Humans, that just found it funny and recorded it.
Bruh, too true.
That “faded like an NBA’s legend” into the “oh my God” transition literally almost killed me. 💀 I was taking a drink of water and came up spluttering all over my kitchen counter 😂😂😂
Exactly 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Do you have the time stamp?
@@andrewdonovan2590 Start from the 5 minute mark. It sets up the joke.
Ra’jah Ohara
@@andrewdonovan2590 5:15
Love that tshirt! P.S. You just explained for me why, when I bought some catnip toys for a couple of kittens we adopted, the toys were ignored by the kittens, but our male full-grown cat went crazy with them.
Thank you for acknowledging the shirt haha
Kittens aren’t attracted to catnip as adults cats are, in general.
@@marketingjones Yes, that was explained in the video
I mean.. my kittens were tearing the stuffings out of the catnip and silvervine toys I got for my older kitter.
Then again.. they do that to all their toys. But the catnip and silvervine especially!
This is thee best animal channel ever, period! The writing is on another level, the wit of this man is legend. His research is unmatched. I've learned more about animals from this channel than every other source in my life. He delivers knowledge and information in the most amazing way...🌹
there was an interesting experiment with spiderwebs from a spider on different drugs, from caffeine to LSD and all the webs they build and up being perfect examples of what each drug does to the body. Fun fact: the THC spider web was emaculate, but took forever
and the caffeine web was a hot mess express!
This is not quite true information.
NASA helped conduct an experiment in 1995 with several different drugs. They didn't give LSD but other drugs including marijuana, the normal web and marijuana web were different, with the marijuana web being less complete and its lines not centred. It did affect its ability to make a web but affected it least out of all of the drugs tested.
Please look up the study properly, don't continue the spread of disinformation you agree with that you have read on social media.
I also say this whilst smoking a joint
This is correct. It is fascinating observing how each drug affected the spider's ability to build a web.
ruclips.net/video/sHzdsFiBbFc/видео.html
Let’s see the crack spider’s web.
Your uploads are always at a time when I most need them. Rough day, 1 hour long client call about how he didn't like the location we shot his music video at, half-hearted lunch and dinner but I see my dude posted a video and all that goes to rest.
Sorry to hear about the rough day but glad I could help in some way
Oh sorry about that. Mind If I ask what do you do for living...
@@harshv5319 Sure. Music producer, engineer, executive producer or production manager in other production jobs.
@@guvnabeatz9884 K, great to know!
Swede here with a little explanation of the whole elk/moose thing:
The iconic, majestic forest dweller Alces alces is known as a moose in North America (actually the sub-species Alces alces americana) and an elk in Europe. The word elk, like the Swedish word älg (pronounced /elj/), is taken from the Latin alces while in North America elk is used for an entirely different animal - a kind of deer, Cervus elaphus, otherwise known as a Wapiti.
Hope this helps or enlightens somebody.
Anyway, love your videos man!
Cheers, mate.
I knew that moose and elk weren't the same thing. Although we have them both up here in Minnesota
in europe? we call them Los in Czech Republic, pretty sure every language in europe have its own word for them, using english word for representing europe seems strange tbh
@@Enkabard I meant if somebody in Europe would need to use the English word for them we would use "elk", as I pointed out in my original comment the Swedish word is "älg". Of course in every day life all of Europe does not speak English.
@@Fregler again, im not sure about that. I would pick word moose before elk, i guess this is so minor detail, but i wonder how many in europe would do the same, i could go into detail why but ... meh
What a delightful way to present a topic. Great job!
True fact: when I was a teenager, the 'cane toad menace' became a thing outside of Australia for the first time, and my friends and I used to go around to pet stores asking them if they sold cane toads just to troll the managers/owners and see them blow a gasket. About half of them were confused not knowing why the hell kids would be asking for an obscure frog, the other half reacted just as satisfyingly as you could expect.
If only it was the age of cheap digital cams or cellphone cams. We could have been Tik Tok famous with some of the absurd reactions we got to the question.
When I worked as a park's gardener, I saw a squirrel repeatedly running up into a Rhododendron bush, chewing a flower bud before doing a backward loop-the-loop and crashing on the ground. It did this over and over again, my chargehand telling me squirrels get high on them.
Very sharp, witty dialogue by the way. I don't normally subscribe to wildlife channels (although I do love wildlife), but the presentation here is a cut above the usual. I'm not surprised you've attracted a large following.
Rhododendron are poisonous - they can cause essentially heart failure and respiratory suppression. That squirrel was speedrunning its existence apparently
love this comment sm
"Santa may've been a mushroom this whole time....." "More stoned than witches in Salem." OMG, you're killing me! LMFAO!!!
“More stoned than a witch in Salem”
Genius
So as a former zookeeper I have to say these "experiments" are real and if your a zookeeper worth half your weight you learn about this stuff because some of these animals will hide fruits and stuff and actually wait for it to ferment and eat it. (Poor little spider monkeys)
Well, they are essentially in a kind of prison 😂
9:56 _“…once in the prehistoric time of 2000…”_
Yoo, don't call out to me like that. Now I feel old…
The fact that he actually chuckled in a video gives me more joy than it should, but it just tickled me😂
Edit: Just found out catnip works on hyenas too. I remember him saying something hyenas being more closely related to cats than dogs. There's the proof😂😂😂
that's pretty cool. it makes sense since hyenas are more related to felines
Yeah Hyenas are related to felines. that's a known fact.
Wait are there video's of Hyena's getting baked? If so _please_ give me a link or something.
@@jahrusalem3658
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ruclips.net/user/shortsU-utthAFaK4?feature=share
@@jahrusalem3658 Just type in hyenas and catnip
I *LOVE* Casual Geographic videos!😻The observations and analogies are spot-on and LOL funny! I also enjoy the way things are reworded to avoid censorship because the creativity of the wording elevates the videos to a whole other level of funny. Such a joy to watch! Please continue entertaining us and educating us about these magnificent creatures. Thank you so much for all you do!💜😽💋
More fun fact, catnip shares the same family as mint and I found out through experience that you can get the same effect with a fricking gum wrapper
So thats why its called catMINT in German. The more you know.
You can get stoned off *_MINT?!?_*
@@zsu-23-4shilka2 Cats can 💀
Oh, catnip also makes a lovely herbal tisane (chamomile and orange-blossom optional) that helps with sleep and relaxation.
Nice
the editing and production value have been wonderful recently! keep up the great work!!
Thank you and will do!
@@mndiaye_97 you are awesome
@@mndiaye_97 I'd really like to see more compilations of your shorter TikTok videos,like yo did years ago.I'd go and watchem over on that site,but I have standards.
@@mndiaye_97 Like your videos but whats with the misinfo about dolphins? This is from 2013
"It sounds too awesome to be true-which means it probably is.
I’m not convinced. Dolphins are curious and intelligent, so I have no doubt that they would investigate a strange animal like a puffer. They might see what happens, explore the texture, taste, or smell of this novel creature in their midst, as they do in this video:
But do they intentionally harass them to get high? I doubt it. I guess it’s possible-but if they do, they’re playing a very deadly game, and one that I doubt is much fun for anyone involved.
When harassed, pufferfish first are true to their names and enlarge their bodies to make themselves less palatable. But if that’s not enough, they have the ability to secrete tetrodotoxin (TTX) to ward off potential predators.
The argument being made by The Sunday Times (and the filmmakers, it seems) is that dolphins are intentionally using TTX to get “high”. I just don’t buy it. A curious bunch accidentally indulging in a little puffer poison? Sure. But I’m to believe that dolphins are using tetrodotoxin regularly to get baked? Or even worse, include these toxic treats as a part of their “diet“? No way. Not even dolphins are crazy enough to take that risk.
Tetrodotoxin simply doesn’t make sense as a drug (and let’s be honest-if it did, humans would be snorting it off bathroom counters already). In very, very, very low doses, tetrodotoxin causes numbness, tingling, and the slight lightheadedness that fugu, the Japanese preparation of raw pufferfish flesh, is known for. I guess it’s possible to see how one might relate these mild effects to the “high” feeling that comes from THC, the main ingredient in marijuana*, but it’s a stretch to say the least. Every illicit drug has one thing in common: they alter minds. It’s right there in the definition of narcotic. Tetrodotoxin, however, doesn’t cross the blood-brain barrier; it doesn’t change perception or enhance sensation. People get poisoned with TTX every year, and there’s a reason you don’t hear anyone describing the experience as a ‘high’: that’s not how tetrodotoxin works.
Tetrodotoxin is a potent neurotoxin that shuts down sodium channels, silencing neural activity. In low doses, it numbs. In slightly higher ones, it paralyzes. In between it slows heart rate, plummets blood pressure, and causes respiratory distress. It’s a poison, not a party drug. There is nothing fun about it.
Perhaps even more importantly, though, tetrodotoxin doesn’t make sense as a narcotic because it is far more deadly than any of the substances used recreationally. For all the stink you hear about illicit drugs, they’re harmless in comparison. THC is a gentle compound that acts as a relaxant and appetite stimulant. For a person to die from orally ingesting marijuana, they would have to eat 1 lb or so of the most potent pot on the market in one sitting (which is probably why there has never been a case of fatal THC overdose). Tetrodotoxin, on the other hand, killed 179 people and poisoned another 467 in Japan alone from 1974 to 1983.
Milligram-for-milligram, tetrodotoxin is 120,000 times as deadly as cocaine, 40,000 times as deadly as meth, and more than 50 million times as deadly as THC. It is tens to hundreds of times more lethal than the venoms of the most notorious animals in the world including the widow spiders and the black mamba. It’s more potent than VX nerve gas, formaldehyde, or even ricin. It is, quite literally, one of the most toxic compounds known to man. It is not a substance to be taken lightly.
Even if we give the dolphins their weight advantage, as mammals, it still would only take a few milligrams of TTX to kill one-a dose which, when provoked, puffers can secrete. Once poisoned, it can take up to an hour to begin feeling the effects, which start with numbness, tingling and lightheadedness. Quickly, things get much, much worse.
Paralysis spreads from the face throughout the body, to the point where any movement becomes difficult and even resting is described as uncomfortable. Muscles weaken, speech slurs, and breathing becomes labored. Within an hour or two, victims can lose feeling and control of their entire body. Around four to six hours after a lethal dose, the victim’s respiratory system succumbs.
Sublethal doses are no picnic, either. Some have described becoming completely paralyzed head to toe, unable to move yet fully conscious, an aware and alert mind trapped in a motionless body. Because TTX doesn’t cross the blood-brain barrier, the mind is clear, unaffected. “The victim, although completely paralyzed, may be conscious and in some cases completely lucid until shortly before death,” says the FDA. It’s a particularly terrifying state of mind referred to by physicians as cerebromedullospinal disconnection, pseudocoma, or, most simply, locked-in syndrome.
I find it tough to believe that dolphins are so careful that they can walk the fine line between tingly lips and maddening paralysis, especially when different individuals of the same species of pufferfish can carry vastly different amounts of toxin in their tissues. Instead, what I hear in the BBC’s description is naive animals learning a hard lesson: soon after ‘puffing’ on puffer, young male dolphins were filmed behaving strangely, even near-motionless at the surface. It doesn’t sound like a happy high; it sounds like the first stages of tetrodotoxin-induced paralysis, with the dolphins instinctively (and perhaps luckily) hovering in shallow water to retain the ability to breathe. It seems unlikely that they interact with puffers like this routinely. Even if the dolphins were pleasurably intoxicated, the inability to react quickly would leave them dangerously exposed to predators like large sharks, not to mention the inherent risks to their lives associated with the toxin involved.
While dolphins may play with puffers to see them expand, or even foolishly put one in their mouths on occasion, I doubt they’re “using” them with any regularity. Instead, the young male dolphins that were caught on camera by this crew probably played a little too rough with their toy and paid an uncomfortable price for their mistake. Lucky for them, only a hidden camera was watching."
honestly I love the change in you in general. What I mean by that is usually you don't show any emotions and a straight face, but when you were talking about the frat boy monkeys you smiled and laughed a little. Good on ya Brother glad to see you seem happier than usual.
"Santa might have been a mushroom this whole time." XDXDXD
14:06
"Bro in a galaxy and it's not this one"
My favorite quote by far :D
I love your channel man! You manage to condense A LOT of information into about 15 minutes, which is a manageable portion for most people, all while being fresh and delightfully witty. Bravo!
Agreed!!! 👍
Probably the first time I've seen you genuinely laugh with the antics these animals do lol
Lmao I used to have a crab apple tree in my backyard and the squirrels would get drunk from eating the apples 😂 it was very entertaining 😂😂
How he does his lines straight-faced is AMAZING! I'd be cracking up every 3 seconds.
For people who believe cocaine bear is crazy, just believe that their animals, like ourselves had this feeling.
Both the movie and the true story were amazing
wasn't cocaine bear real?
@@ytyoungrichnhigh yes, the movie was inspired by the real life one not based so it wasn't 100% accurate, in reality the bear didn't kill anyone it just ran for a few miles before succumbing to the overdose.
@@ytyoungrichnhigh
The true story is the bear overdosed and dropped.
@@madtabby66 Too much cocaine. But what if it didn't get the overdose? The answer: the movie.
Finding an animal show this funny *& informative* is everything my childhood was looking for with all the witty adult humour my grown ass can't help but cackle all the way through...
Dogs are also mildly affected by catnip, though it works more as a sedative and stomach soother in their case due to it's relation to mint. (Possibly why cats also like it when you have minty fresh breath.)
I appreciate you and the way you present these. Giving people fair warning and a chance to save their hearts any turmoil by explicitly calling the ad break shows the bigness of your character. I watched to the end, but my girlfriend appreciates things like this, cuz she loves animals and enjoys your content yet understandably always refuses to watch the parts that upset her. So I'm glad you provide examples for both ends of the spectrum (of wholesomeness to brutality in the animal kingdom), because in reality it's like that. Giving us the option to watch parts encompassing either one or both ends of the spectrum is refreshing. You're evidently yourself in all your videos, and I'm glad for that. Cheers
Lol, there was a case on Bondi Vet about two little dogs, and one of them was foaming at the mouth in the backyard, which was completely enclosed. Found out that the dog foaming was the one who was licking cane toads that were treading through the yard, and her doing that was basically encouraging her sister to try it too. The only solution to it was to put mesh around the bottoms of the fence and keep a closer eye on the dogs. (They also didn't like the sound of air horns, so they used an air horn as a deterrent to keep them away from the toads. If they didn't listen, they would be put back in the laundry room as punishment.)
It happens. Every year during a certain time of the year, we would hear birds slamming into our windows and doors. Big thanks in part to the neighbors who had crab apple trees and some form of cherry trees. They would get drunk or trip off it.
As a stoner cat owner it makes me happy to know that my cats are getting the best kitty ganja out there since I grew them catnip in my garden and give it to them fresh(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
you mean organic catnip.
'Kitty ganja' 😸😹 This Jamaican-American cat-lover approves!
Ayyy nice!!
fresh isn't as active the plant needs to dry to have best level of active component
Catnip grows wild in many parts of the US. If you think you got mint but your cat steals the bag, it's catnip!
Seeing how my cat pulls out the claws (lovingly, I'm sure) real fast when catnip is introduced, I was mighty impressed by the last clip where they're so close to the big kitty when spraying the good stuff.
*cutely slashes your jugular*
Same. My kitty never (absolutely never) gets aggressive or uses her claws. Even when playing she'll take care not to swat at you.
Except when you give her catnip. She will do *everything* to get her catnip toy. If you have it in your hands, she'll claw and bite to get to the toy. It's not malicious, she just wants the toy and just kinda forgets the fact that you are a human who experiences pain, but i'd never walk around a big cat enclosure with a bottle of nip spray in my pocket.
I love that part! Spritz spritz, and big kitty licks interestedly at it. Then he smiles. Then he floats away on his own cloud ...
Your offended face when you said “literal puff puff pass” is the highlight of the day 😂😂🤣
The way how that tiger wouldn't stop sniffing the bug repellant, then started getting tipsy, and still didn't stop is probably the reason Tigger is the only one
I worked at a small farm once where the pigs were allowed to roam the orchard. In fall they regularly sought out fallen and half-rotten apples to get drunk and lie in the sun half asleep all day.
It was really funny to watch and just made them even more relatable lol
I hope that you put suntan lotion on those drunk little piggies
13:11
Knight: "Catnip..."
Puss: "Umm that's not mine..."
I understood that reference lmao
I could listen to you all day. Thank you.
With a library card you can listen to his audio book.
So in other words, Rouge the Bat's red-light attitude makes even more sense than it did before.
This is by far the most entertaining video you've done. I had a huge grin on my face for 15 minutes straight and some of your lines just utterly sent me.
12:42 Rarely does this madlad break character while stating his facts, but every time he does, it's a moment to remember
Seeing him smile really makes the world go round.❤
I have a camphor tree in my yard. Every spring, crows and bluejays come to eat the berries and get so wasted they can't fly. It's hilarious.
I never knew catnip bubbles were a thing, I never heard about it. It is nice to learn new things.
I bought them, my cats just got annoyed.
When I was a kid, growing up in Australia, we had a cat that "did" cane toad. It was funny as hell.
😂😂
I'm in Memphis, TN and noticed a very odd acting bird that had managed to get onto my Grandmother's screened in porch. He was a Cedar Waxwing. She had cedars in her yard which the berries crack when frozen, heat up, fermint, and the birds get drunk. We read about them not long after the encounter with the very hung over and very pissed off bird I evicted gently from the porch, with a towel. He was Not happy about being disturbed!
Dude, you could have at least let him sleep it off first!
"There is no sober way to explain this." BEST LINE EVER
Gotta hand it to you - you really covered this topic very thoroughly, esp for a channel with a strong humor component. Well done, sir!
During a party, our family dog (who was a puppy at tthe time) got drunk by lapping up a puddle of spilt beer my parents thought they cleaned up in time. It was very clear this wasn't the case as she started stumbling. When the alcohol really set in she just layed in the middle of the floor until she conked out. The morning after she was hungover and needed some peanut butter with advil in it. After that, she wouldn't go near cans or bottles with the only exception being empty water bottles, which she liked to chew the caps off of, she even taught our second dog to leave cans and bottles alone.
Me to the moose:
"We're more alike than you think."
"You and I are not so different"
Literally
Tell us how you ended up in your neighbor’s tree.
The funniest thing is that when I took a holiday around Barbados the cruise liner visited St. Kitts for a few days and depending on where you go there are locals who will tell you not to leave your alcohol unattended because the monkeys WILL steal it. Some hotels and resorts have signs posted to let tourists know. Even seen a few groups of monkeys at the resort I was in hang around in nearby trees waiting for the right time to run off with martinis, pina coladas, beer, wine, all sorts of hard liquor, you name it. Another thing that you see in Mexico and around the Caribbean are sugar traps for insects. People will fill glasses and bins full of sugar and it attracts insects, who I assume either get stuck in the mixture, drown, or get drunk on it to the point they can't escape.
Absolutely criminal the kereru werent brought up more, they are hilarious when drunk. Also the fact they're the only bird left in NZ that can eat certain berries (due to size) means they get drunk way more often than most birds
4:30 that's a pretty harsh intervention plan
I gotta say it again - the combination of serious information and humor in these videos is fantastic. Talk about a perfect blend - this is it!
This is an excellent pod cast... Thanks so much for making it
Your knowledgeable yet hilarious deliverance of facts is borderline euphoric. ❤
05:41 ahh I really wanted to hear the drunk birds singing to hear the difference 😂
would be cool to hear ngl
6:29 So what you're telling me is that Rouge the bat could drink Sonic and his friends under the table and still have the presence of mind to crack open a safe and steal the jewels inside
Damn
You really brought up sonic for this
Aaand, I am now reminded of the Snapcube dubs where weed-chaos emeralds were involved.
"Holy SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"- E123 Omega, Snapcube
That would also be pretty in character for Rouge
@@dloveless3585😂😂😂
I remember watching a real life documentary snippet of a huge group of animals (monkeys, birds, elephants, gazelle-looking things) flocking to a grove of trees at a certain time of year, binging on the fallen fruit, and then getting so drunk that they just sorta laid on the ground and stared at the clouds 😆
7:35 'they really invested millions of years into this drinking habit' broooooooo i love this joke. thank you for that giggle
1:21 this man's wordplay game is unrivaled
Fun fact, the mushrooms the reindeers were eating was the inspiration for the mushroom Chopper wanted in his flash back in One Piece.
I love this channel. Sharp and quick format while being also in-depth and well informed.
You my friend are the answer to the terrifying question. "Who do I watch when attenborough passes away".
I love your content mate. It's funny and educational, witty and purposeful. Amazing stuff, imma long time fan 🍻
I love the way you communicate your message. Lots of fun. Keep at it. I'll be watching 😃
This is the 7th (kinda)wholesome video in a row what is this man up to?
he's preparing us for some real messed up stuff
@@mrroboshadow conditioning us and then giving the haymaker
... um... monkey?
He's making sure we've had our Wholesome fill so he can sucker punch us.
5:12. Those are cedar waxwings. They have red, orange or yellow wax like tips on their wings that may depend on there diet. live in western Canada and have raised a young Waxwing that fell out of its nest in mid summer years ago. They are really a beautiful creatures. They often eat fermented berries because they Waxwings breed later in the spring and the berries are off by that point.
12:34 Ohhhhhhh, I DIDNT KNOW THAT!! I thought my dog was just stupid licking those cane toads but him trying to get high I didn’t even think about. We really had to make sure he didn’t do it as we knew about the poison. Thankfully my dog lived to almost 15 years old