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> It's a cost-benefit analysis; when fermented barries are the only (or
> the major) source of food available, the collateral damage some
> drunken birds do to themselves could be much less than the
> massive die-off afflicting starving flocks. Of course, selection
> pressures would progressively weed out those birds unable to
> handle their liquor, the ones who could handle it would live to
> reproduce, and subsequent generations would find the equation
> more and more in favor of the berry-eating stoners.
I always thought that the poster drug of the hippy mindset (marijuana)
got a much better image than it deserves - this nasty little plant drugs
its victims, knackering their reaction time and again making them
eminently predatable. I myself have on occasion been left completely
unprepared for sabre tooth tiger attacks. Suddenly I want a Snickers...
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