This Shouldn’t Be A Thing – Puff, Puff, Pass Edition

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It's 1154, Calvin.

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This shouldn't be a thing.

Today it's the puff, puff, puff, past edition courtesy of the independent.

Adam Whitnell is the author.

Headline reads dolphins deliberately get high on puffer fish, nerve toxins by carefully chewing

and passing them around.

Dude.

Dolphins are kind of the worst.

I used to love dolphins.

I love dolphins.

Oh, read up on dolphins.

They're tyrants.

Really?

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Darker side of dolphins.

We have no idea.

Dolphins are thought of as one of the most intelligent species in the animal kingdom.

Experts will believe they have put their ingenuity to use.

In the pursuit of getting a buzz in scenes for a new documentary young dolphins were seen

carefully manipulating a certain kind of puffer fish, which if provoked releases a nerve

toxin.

Large doses of this can be deadly, but in small amounts, it's known to produce a narcotic

effect.

And the dolphins appeared to have landed on just the right amount.

Evolution, baby.

Hopefully chewing on the puffer fish and passing it between one another.

Don't bowl guard the puffer fish.

The marine mammals then enter what seemed to be a trans like state.

A zoologist who worked on this producer worked as a producer on the series says this was

a case of young dolphins purposely experimenting with something we know to be intoxicating

after chewing the puffer gently and passing it around.

He began acting most peculiarly hanging around with their noses at the surface as if they

were fascinated by their own reflection.

Dude, did you see how big my eyes are?

What if what if we are the sea, man?

What if what if we are the water?

It reminds us of a craze a few years ago when people started licking toads to get a buzz.

I remember that don't do that either.

Especially the way they hung in there in a days afterwards.

It was the most extraordinarily thing to see scenes showing the dolphins using puffer fish

will be in the second episode of this series which first hit the airwaves in 2021.

What's the street value of this puffer fish man?

This doesn't feel good.

You spiked it with something?

You put some yellow fit in here.

Don't take the pink puffer.

You got that?

Don't take the pink puffer man.

Don't do it.

You don't want to do it.

Calvin, you got something.

Oh my god.

Well, maybe we could talk about this more death as a follow-up story but it reminds me of

there are orcas who wear salmon on their heads as hats.

Everything in the sea is just getting high.

Dude.

This is just salmon make me look fat man.

Alright.

You know what?

Your head doesn't look so big with that salmon on top.

That's the best Calvin.

I heard nothing man.

Alright.

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