After they have been on the ground for a day or two they start to ferment. If she eats too many of them she will get drunk. All animals just love them in that condition.
George
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After they have been on the ground for a day or two they start to ferment. If she eats too many of them she will get drunk. All animals just love them in that condition.
George
Fortunately, I have not seen that! Herding the dogs inside from under the mulberry tree has been an annual tradition in our yard in June for a number of years - since that stupid tree started dropping berries! We've always had labs......they'll eat anything.....doesn't matter if the berries are a nice ripe dark purple or if they are still white, if we don't pay attention, they'll gorge themselves on those berries.... now I need to find one on a stream bank!
Hackberries, which have a lot of sugar in them, will do the same. Older generations attributed repeated freezing and thawing in the autumn to enhancing the effect. Seeing a flock of robins so drunk they couldn't fly more than 4 feet, before 8 am, is a memory that I cherish. I have to wonder if they suffer from hangovers.
Ed
I saw a Nat Geo special about the Okavango Delta once. A bunch of elephants and baboons got drunk on some kind of fruit.:tieone: Those critters definately had hangovers.:(
Many years ago a fishing buddy and I came upon a flock of cedar waxwings feeding on berries. The berries had stayed on the bush all winter long. Those birds were so drunk some couldn't even hop let alone fly. We weren't 20 feet from them and laughing so hard it hurt but they didn't care. I'll never forget it.:lol:
I knew that birds got drunk feeding on fermented berries, but never thought about fish......wonder how one can tell if a carp is intoxicated? :-)