http://www.metafilter.com/tags/zoopharmacognosy Posts tagged with 'zoopharmacognosy' at MetaFilter. Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:46:51 -0800 Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:46:51 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/19080/ <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/weird_news/3831191.htm">Monkeys use millipede juice as Ecstacy-style party drug</a> <i>They bite the millipedes, then reach behind their back and rub it on their fur...Their eyes glaze over...one monkey shared a millipede with four family members and the entire family turned into a 'writhing mass.'</i> How cute is that? For context, here's a December report of wild primates ingesting plants with <a href="http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$U2CSRTJ0OCMX3QFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2001/12/26/wape26.xml&_requestid=173800">stimulant and hallucinogenic</a> properties. Welcome to the new field of <a href="http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/medmuseum/galleryexhibits/naturespharmacy/remedies/wild.html">Zoopharmacognosy</a>, which studies the <a href="http://jinrui.zool.kyoto-u.ac.jp/CHIMPP/CHIMPP.html">spontaneous medicinal (and recreational) use of plants</a> by non-human animals. An <a href="http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=682633">intro</a> to the subject. Perhaps now you're ready to chew on Terrence McKenna's visionary notion that <a href="http://www.globalideasbank.org/BOV/BV-385.HTML">psychedelic mushrooms</a> were the spark for the <a href="http://www.deoxy.org/t_ladder.htm">development of consciousness in apes</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.19080 Sun, 11 Aug 2002 16:46:51 -0800 drugs ecstasy monkeys psychedelic psychedelics zoopharmacognosy mediareport