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discostar23
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 Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:44 pm Post subject: I didn't believe it. |
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I was talking with my girlfriend and she told me that there is a tree in Africa called the marula tree. At a certain time of year the fruit falls off the tree and the animals all come and gore on it. Since the fruit is over ripe, it ferments in their stomaches and makes them quite drunk. I was like "yeah right there is a big drunken animal party in Africa once a year".
Well watch and learn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtPplZnPuMA&eurl= |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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If that's real, it's the most awesome thing I have ever seen.
Taoism explained, by the animals of the African savannah... |
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Green Tea
Joined: 04 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| ohhhhhhhh..... you meant real animals! |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| The wacky music and cartoon sound effects really makes the video come alive. |
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discostar23
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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it is real. It is made by the same guy who did "the gods must be crazy"
My girlfriend watched it in primary school. They taught her about it and everything.
my fav is the elephant who can't stand up but keeps eating. Can you say lush! |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| discostar23 wrote: |
it is real. It is made by the same guy who did "the gods must be crazy"
My girlfriend watched it in primary school. They taught her about it and everything.
my fav is the elephant who can't stand up but keeps eating. Can you say lush! |
Me too. it reminded me of Sparkles. |
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Unreal
Joined: 01 Jul 2004
Location: Jeollabuk-do
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| discostar23 wrote: |
it is real. It is made by the same guy who did "the gods must be crazy"
My girlfriend watched it in primary school. They taught her about it and everything.
my fav is the elephant who can't stand up but keeps eating. Can you say lush! |
Me too. it reminded me of Sparkles. |
*hic!* |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| My parents' backyard has a crabapple tree. The apples are inedible to humans but birds love them. The ones that stay on the branches over the winter ferment, so when birds eat them in the spring they get wasted. |
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mytime
Joined: 15 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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Well I lived in South Africa for many years and I have seen it with my own eyes (animals eating the marula fruit and staggering around)
Its true |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I've had marula cream liquor (sort of an African Bailey's) but it didn't make me behave like that. The bottle has a picture of a charging elephant on it. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder if it would be easier or harder to walk while intoxicated when one is four-legged. More stability vs. more coordination required. Hmmm. |
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Unreal
Joined: 01 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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Due to its well-known alcoholic capacities, rumours abound as to the Marula's intoxicating effects on wild animals. While elephants and baboons both relish the fruit, the former would need to consume prodigious amounts of already fermenting fruit for it to have even the mildest impact, and since these huge animals drink up to 160 litres of water a day, there would anyway be a major diluting effect. Interestingly, examination of fresh elephant dung show that less than ten percent of Marula fruits are actually 'processed' in any way - most fruit passes through the digestive tract intact.
Observations on baboons suggest that they prefer fresh Marula fruit and because the pulp is digested and the seeds passed within a 24-hour period, fermentation is impossible. The infamous scene in a popular movie from the 1970s - Jamie Uys' 'Beautiful People', which depicted a troop of obviously drunken baboons in and under a Marula tree, was clearly man-induced and would today be outlawed in terms of animal cruelty. |
from
http://www.wildwatch.com/resources/plants/marula.asp |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject: ... |
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| Actually, the Koreans have a word for this: Itaewon |
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Boodleheimer
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| My parents' backyard has a crabapple tree. The apples are inedible to humans but birds love them. The ones that stay on the branches over the winter ferment, so when birds eat them in the spring they get wasted. |
my friend's family has that problem with apples over a pond. the apples fall in, ferment, the deer come by for a drink, then they have drunk deer. |
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