Dolphins like to get high by sucking on puffer fish

Using a remote - control photographic camera disguised as a sea turtle , marine biologists watch as young dolphins got themselves stoned by absorb a nerve toxin released by puffer Pisces the Fishes . And as if divvy up a joint , the dolphin could be get word passing it around .

Puffer fish , when provoked , protect themselves by releasing a nasty toxin that can be lethal . But the dolphins seem to have figured out how to make the Pisces loose it in just the correct amount .

After chewing on the puffer fish and pass it around between one another , the dolphins come out to enroll into a enchantment - like state .

“ [ T]hey begin move most peculiarly , hang around with their nose at the open as if fascinated by their own manifestation , ” noted zoologist Rob Pilley . “ It reminded us of that furor a few days ago when citizenry commence lap up frog to get a bombination , specially the way they hung there in a daze afterwards . It was the most over-the-top affair to see . ”

The behavior was recorded on camera by the makers of the nature infotainment , mahimahi : Spy in the Pod — a series bring forth for BBC One . Here ’s the dawdler :

And delay out this crazy machinelike camera disguised as a sea polo-neck :

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Unfortunately , we do n’t have actual video of the dolphins getting stone ( at least not yet ) , but this television taken by Joseph Cox back in 2012 indicate dolphins play with puffer fish :

[ ViaThe Sunday Times ]

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