Pass me some

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• nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  discoverwildlife.com/…/lemurs-licking-millipedes-…

  They are chewing the millipedes, and then rubbing the saliva and millipede into their fur to act as an insecticide against malaria carrying mosquitoes.

  However, this produces an unexpected side effect – the chemicals appear to send them into a “trancelike state” and a “condition of complete intoxication”.

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  • GreenShimada@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair, the anti-malarial drug Meflaquine/Larium does the same thing to people a bit after you take it.

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    • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So we can just chew millipedes and skip big pharma?

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• notabot@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m curious about the assertion that this is ‘to protect themselves from malaria carrying mosquitoes’. How do the scientists know this is the motivation, rather than a helpful side-effect?

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  • Korval@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not too mention the implication that lemurs know what malaria is. What else have these scientists been hiding from us???

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    • 5715@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They don’t have to know it, they just have to lick it

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ikr I was starting to feel pretty stupid for not coming up with my own vaccines

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    • notabot@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Have you tried licking random millipedes to see what happens?

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• GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Doped Up Lemurs is kinda a great band name.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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    • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Y’all got anymore of them millipedes…?”

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• morto@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They just called millipedes insects like that?

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• Ghostie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What nickname do you think lemurs would give the drug if they could? Maybe “snerch”

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  • Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mlom

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  • JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    würm

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Julian’s Jive”

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• shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  animals like being a little fucked up sometimes, as a treat, we all do it

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not joking I’m curious

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  • IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When will it be synthesized and on headship shelves!?

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    • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What? Who needs synthesis. Hakuna Matata

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• Danarchy@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Millipedes out here sending lemurs to Zobooland

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  • Ghostie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Zoboomafoo didn’t take the cancellation of his show well.

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• diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes… to protect ourselves from malaria 🐒

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hell yeah, I hope those lemurs have a great time!

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• CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is definitely what they see when they zonk out

  https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIflyRuTABM

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  he liles to move it move it

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay what species of millipede and is it too endangered for me to go find and lick

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