【轻松英文阅读】爱玩耍的海豚

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It appears dolphins like to get high and they do it intentionally¹. A team from the BBC made this discovery when making a documentary on bottlenose dolphins. The dolphin’s drug of choice is puffer fish toxin². However, they don’t actually eat the puffer fish. Such large amounts of the toxin would be deadly, but in smaller amounts it is like a narcotic³. It appears puffer fish release small amounts of toxin when they are threatened. The dolphins will gently nibble⁴ on the puffer fish to provoke them and make them produce the toxins⁵.

 

The BBC team filmed the dolphins gently chewing a puffer fish and passing it around. Afterwards, the dolphins began displaying strange behavior. For example, they would put their noses near the surface and study their own reflections in fascination⁶.

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