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First Scientifically Confirmed Poisonous Bird
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Shrabbit420
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Birds that make the same poison(s) as 'poison dart frogs', that is awesome. And gives me another reason to dislike birds. It looks like a demonic crow with red eyes and feathers.
Shrabbit420 said:
Because there is now a confirmed poisonous bird you have a reason to dislike all birds? To me that sounds a bit unfair and not completely realistic.
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The Traveler
HBFrank
Frank
Because there is now a confirmed poisonous bird you have a reason to dislike all birds? To me that sounds a bit unfair and not completely realistic.
Kind regards,
The Traveler[/quote]
hahaha - i LIVE with around 40 parrots (My wife and i run a parrot rescue) - now THAT'S a reason to dislike birds... and i still like em.... but man do they get noisy.
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The Traveler[/quote]
hahaha - i LIVE with around 40 parrots (My wife and i run a parrot rescue) - now THAT'S a reason to dislike birds... and i still like em.... but man do they get noisy.
BananaForeskin
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He did say ANOTHER reason to dislike birds, in all fairness. Do I sense childhood trauma :shock: Anywho, neat video/fact.
Exactly the same poison as the frogs? Birds and frogs are fairly distant creatures to have such a similar set of toxins. I can see how the steroidal ring base is common in animals, but it's cool that they share something so specific. Obviously not impossible, just unlikely and makes my inner nerd go fuzzy.
C'mon biochemists, shatter my moment of bliss with your hammer of science!
C'mon biochemists, shatter my moment of bliss with your hammer of science!
DeMenTed said:
Yes, the frogs get this by eating some type of bugs. The bugs probably don't make the poison themselves but get it by eating certain plants.
I guess that the same is happening with the poisonous birds. It would also explain why birds of the same species have a great variation with how poisonous they are.
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The Traveler
Wow fascinating. It REALLY reminds me of the supposed to be Hallucinogenic Bird that the Mayas liked to eat.
If a bird can contain toxins, it sure can contain Hallucinogens as well.
These scientists say that the poisons found in these drugs are identical to those found in a certain frog.
I can imagine the existance of Bufotenine birds.
If a bird can contain toxins, it sure can contain Hallucinogens as well.
These scientists say that the poisons found in these drugs are identical to those found in a certain frog.
I can imagine the existance of Bufotenine birds.
BlackSun
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Cheeto said:
Birds and frogs are most certainly *not* reptiles.
Evolutionarily, amphibians (like frogs, toads, etc) evolved first, and reptiles evolved from them. Eventually, birds evolved from reptiles.
However, this happened hundreds of millions of years ago, so while they are technically related, there is quite a bit of variation between them.
This is actually pretty cool. But what is this about a hallucinogenic bird that the Maya ate? I've never heard of that before. This is certainly interesting to me.
Well, the answer seems pretty simple to me...
Don't try to eat/smoke/snuff/otherwise ingest or get high on poisonous birds.
Don't try to eat/smoke/snuff/otherwise ingest or get high on poisonous birds.
christian
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azrael said:
-I've gotta agree with you 100% on that view, Azrael. Science has a knack of turning this wonderful, world around us into a collection of dull, tedious, drab words. Which usually tend to describe the analytical results of a particular moment alone, rather than the natural magical movement in general context.
