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Did you that dolphins love to get high ? #documentary #dolphins #pufferfish #seacreatures #life

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519.2K views46.2K likes1:19ENMay 9, 2026
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Dolphins willingly expose themselves to one of the deadliest poisons on Earth. Just to get high, it starts with a group of dolphins surrounding a single pufferfish, but they don't eat it. Instead, they take turns. Each dolphin gently bites the fish, not to harm it, but to make it release a small dose of its toxin. That toxin is called tetrototoxin. A neurotoxin so strong, it can stop a human from breathing with just a tiny drop. But dolphins, they're massive and incredibly smart. They've figured out how to microdose it, passing the fish around like a shared ritual, each one biting for only a second or two, and always keeping it alive. Then they wait. Within minutes, the toxin begins to work, just enough to alter their senses, not to paralyze, but to elevate. Researchers have seen dolphins floating peacefully near the surface, spinning slowly, mesmerized by the reflections of sunlight, or by the bubbles they create, as if they're lost in wonder. In a world where survival never really stops, these brilliant creatures seem to have found something else, their own little escape, a moment of pure weightless bliss.