According to foreign media reports, although humans and octopus do not look similar, and the latter's brain is far less than the brain of any mammal, a recent study shows that humans may be more like this eight-legged aquatic invertebrate than people think, and all of this is something that drugs make people realize. Dr. Gül Dölen of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine conducted such a special study by giving octopuses MDMA to observe their reactions, and they showed the same reaction as humans.
First, several male octopuses and female octopuses were put into water containing MDMA. After half an hour of absorption, they are placed in a container with multiple areas. Some of these areas are empty, but one area is closed with a sober male octopus. Then something strange happened: when putting the sober octopus in this test container, they usually avoid the male octopus that is locked up, and they ignore or avoid contact with other octopus. But when the "drinking" octopus is placed inside, they will actively seek physical contact with the male octopus that is locked up.
Dölen pointed out that octopuses who sucked MDMA tend to hold their cages and put their mouths on the cages, which is very similar to human responses to MDMA, and they often touch each other.
Just like to the human brain, this "love drug" seems to work in the brain of this invertebrate. These "prosocial" behaviors are very obvious in the experiment, and can help people understand how animals socialize and what exactly inhibits or promotes emotional behaviors between each other in the animal kingdom.
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ecstasy generally refers to tablets and pills containing hallucinogenic amphetamine-type stimulant ingredients. After taking it, it mainly manifests as excessive activity, shaking the head and twisting the waist, dancing, delusion, shamelessness, sexual impulses, hallucinations and violent tendencies, so it is commonly known as "ecstasy".
Common varieties: 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), 3,4-methylenedioxymethylene (MDA), etc. Let’s take MDMA as an example to introduce:
English name: MDMA
Toxicity: MDMA abusers need both its excitatory and hallucinogenic effects, and they also appreciate their hallucinogenic effects. MDMA can cause permanent brain cell damage and non-permanent damage to liver cells. People with severe poisoning may suffer from dehydration and sudden heart disease.
Symptoms of abuse: large doses of MDMA often cause auditory and visual changes. Symptoms manifested in body organs, including increased blood pressure, heart rhythm, accelerated pulse, and in severe cases, muscle tension, uncontrollable teeth gritting, dry mouth, trembling hands, nausea, and some experience fatigue, sweating, blurred vision, anxiety and mental disorders. Even moderate doses of MDMA can produce severe body temperature rise, cardiovascular dysfunction, jaundice and convulsions. The side effects of long-term abuse of MDMA are also manifested in psychological disorders, such as psychological disorder, depression, insomnia, anxiety and neurological disorders. Nearly half of the abusers have panic and paranoia. MDMA can distract energy and incoordinate movements, so it is difficult to complete the work of focusing, especially for drivers, driving after taking MDMA is very dangerous.
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In fact, cases of animal addiction to drugs are not uncommon
In 1935, Australia introduced sugarcane toad from Hawaii, USA to deal with beetles that harm the sugarcane cultivation industry. However, this guy has a strong reproductive ability and can eat anything. He has almost no natural enemies here, which has led to the flood of toad army.
The skin of this toad will continuously secrete trace amounts of hallucinogenic toxins. When the dose is small, it can play a role similar to a hallucinogen. And creatures like dogs lick whatever they see, and they can't extricate themselves after licking them.
Antifreeze is the deadly poison for most animals, but it is not for groundhog in several national parks in California, USA.This thing is poisonous but contains alcohol, which makes many groundhogs unable to wait to take a few more sips before being poisoned. Sequoia National Park and Yoshimedi National Park parking lots are lurking several groundhog criminal gangs. They specialize in picking down your mouth when you are not paying attention, biting the heat pipe of the development engine or anything else that is in the way to get the delicious food that is hard to get in your life - antifreeze. At least 40 cars are damaged every year.
It is common sense that pufferfish is highly toxic, but the toxins of pufferfish are also an anesthetic when they are very trace. Many dolphins have learned how to "ansthem themselves" by licking puffer fish.
At some point, the Russians need to deal with a bunch of aviation fuel barrels, and they think the Cronoki Nature Reserve, which is almost no one enters, is the best choice. A few years later, scientists discovered a strange side effect—local brown bears have learned how to open barrels and suck the remaining airplane fuel steam.
Under the stimulation of drugs, the brown bears began to gradually become crazy. Some witnesses said that some grizzlies were even chasing and biting the landing helicopter's butt for fuel. The whole scene was weird like the sequel to a thriller movie like " Resident Evil ".
