Top 5 Animals that Get Baked

Us humans can learn a lot from animals if we pay attention. So here at Kief.Studio, we paid attention to finding out which animals get baked. Knowing this makes us feel more connected to our fellow Earth lifeforms. So without further adieu, here are the Top 5 Animals that Get Baked.

Reader warning: While animals do these things in the wild, these toxic substances are deadly to humans and many other living animals. Do not use them.

1) Dolphins get baked.

Dolphins Play Catch with a Pufferfish! | Spy In The Wild | BBC Earth (youtu.be)

Dolphins chew on pufferfish to get a dose of a neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin. This neurotoxin would be fatal in large amounts, but the dolphins are careful not to swallow the pufferfish. Instead, they take small doses and pass the pufferfish around to one another just like a joint.

Dolphins Get Baked

2) Cats get baked.

Why Do Cats Like Catnip? (youtu.be)

If you’ve ever been to the pet section in a grocery store, you have seen catnip. Cats react to a molecule that catnip plants produce called Nepetalactone, which interacts just like pheromones in the cat’s brain. Essentially, nepetalactone causes cats to emulate some of their mating behaviors.

Cats Get Baked

3) Reindeers get baked.

Magic mushrooms & Reindeer – Weird Nature – BBC animals (youtu.be)

Reindeer seek after a magic mushroom in the Arctic Circle called Amantia Muscaria. This mushroom is known to create sensations of flying. Flying Reindeer, where have we heard that before?

Reindeers Get Baked

4) Lemurs bet baked.

Lemurs get high | Spy in the Wild – BBC (youtu.be)

Lemurs usually eat fruit, but they also take rips off of millipedes. Millipedes secrete a cocktail of toxins from their legs when their defensive instincts kick in. The Lemurs take a microdose of this concoction and enter a tranquil state while drooling. They also rub the toxins all over their fur. Humans speculate that Lemurs do this to keep bugs out of their hair.

Lemurs Get Baked

5) Koalas get baked.

Koalas: When Stupidity is a Survival Strategy (youtu.be)

The Koala’s strategy is to eat eucalyptus leaves for 2 hours each day, get baked from it, then sleep for 22 hours. Because their diet is highly toxic to most animals, they do not compete for their food and have few to no natural predators.

Koalas Get Baked