Animals That Do Drugs
Turns out humans aren't the only animals that can medicate themselves - many other animals have found ways to deal with illness by using natural remedies. Hank will tell you about some of the...
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If you got a headache you got a stash of ibuprofen or whatever to help put you to rights, right? But if you're an animal, they can't just pop down to the nearest Walgreens when they got a tummy ache. So how do they cure what ails them? Well it turns out, some animals have figured out how to self medicate using some pretty weird stuff. [Intro] Anting! Birds have trouble with parasites. I mean, who doesn't? But for birds its really important to stay clean 'cause if you got a bunch of mites gnawing on your feathers you're not gonna be able to do all your fun bird stuff like flyin around. So a lot of them, around 250 species, do this thing called Anting. They hunker down on top of an anthill, and let hundreds of ants swarm all ove...
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If you got a headache you got a stash of ibuprofen or whatever to help put you to rights, right? But if you're an animal, they can't just pop down to the nearest Walgreens when they got a tummy ache. So how do they cure what ails them? Well it turns out, some animals have figured out how to self medicate using some pretty weird stuff. [Intro] Anting! Birds have trouble with parasites. I mean, who doesn't? But for birds its really important to stay clean 'cause if you got a bunch of mites gnawing on your feathers you're not gonna be able to do all your fun bird stuff like flyin around. So a lot of them, around 250 species, do this thing called Anting. They hunker down on top of an anthill, and let hundreds of ants swarm all ove...
