African animals and alcohol cant handle it...

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02 June 2009, 05:16

retreever

African animals and alcohol cant handle it...

Got this in an email... You will get a good laugh...
Reminds me of our shindigs in Dallas at DSC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLgiB1Uqxv0

The name is jungle juice...

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02 June 2009, 05:22

JBrown

Outstanding!

Thanks for posting.

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02 June 2009, 05:30

RobinOLocksley

Very funny.Thanks for sharing.

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02 June 2009, 05:33

dyker

Funny footage, but staged. All of the animals were tranquelized. No way can eating marulas give that sort of high.

02 June 2009, 05:37

h kittle

Good video. I could not understand what was being said. Was this fruit from the amarula tree?

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02 June 2009, 05:53

graybird

I received a similar video a few years ago, but in English. If someone can post it on YouTube, I'll email it to you.

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02 June 2009, 06:09

L. David Keith

H, your thinking of the liqueur, Amarula, and it is made from the Marula fruit (good stuff). Marula is the fruit. Once it ferments, small animals such as Vervet Monkey's get high as a kite on it. You'll see their faces stained with the fruit.
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02 June 2009, 06:20

RBHunt

That amarula is nasty stuff. African version of Bailey's Irish Cream. I remember one SAA flight over where they had all the free mini bottles you wanted of it. Tastes like melted ice cream.

02 June 2009, 07:05

JohnCrighton

I love Amarula - luckily I can now get it here in Florida - wife thinks it is too sweet, which is odd because she normally likes very sweet things. I love it over ice.

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02 June 2009, 07:22

BrettAKSCI

quote:
Originally posted by dyker:
Funny footage, but staged. All of the animals were tranquelized. No way can eating marulas give that sort of high.

Grouse get drunk on fermented grapes. I've certainly heard of drunk elephants from eating something fermented, but I forget what it was.

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02 June 2009, 17:35

butchloc

it is kinda fun to inject oranges with vodka and throw them out for the babos

02 June 2009, 18:09

dyker

Brett, it is false that elephant get drunk on marula fruit. They will get very aggressively protective of fruit laden marula trees but they would have to eat way too many fermented fruits and their digestive system is such that the fruits would pass through too rapidly for them to get pissed.

Elephant in the Matusadona would not let anything approach "their" trees when in fruit.

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02 June 2009, 19:19

mboga biga bwana

Just Funny !

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02 June 2009, 19:22

Vlam

I take it this must be the scene from " Beautiful People" Jamie Uys documentary on the sahara.
If yes then they animals are tranquilized, take a look at the way the baboon fall in front of the camera, that poor bastard got thrown into shot.
Anyway, it was good for a laugh.

Interesting fact, a few scientists got their heads together to work out how many marulas the elephant would have to eat to get pissed. They came up with the answer at around 2 tons of the fruit if my memory serves me right.

02 June 2009, 19:59

Shangaan

The marula's werent working so they soaked corn seed in alchol over night. The effects were so fast that they had very little time to film as you can see the animals on the clip staggered and then went to sleep fairly quickly.

02 June 2009, 20:41

kayaker

Second what the others say, animals cannot get 'drunk' eating marulas, its pure nonsense and tall tales.

However baboons do get 'high' from eating Euphorbia coerulescens or 'soet noors' but this is because of the euphorbon poisons, not a fermenting effect.

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03 June 2009, 03:34

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quote:
Originally posted by JohnCrighton:
I love Amarula - luckily I can now get it here in Florida - wife thinks it is too sweet, which is odd because she normally likes very sweet things. I love it over ice.

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03 June 2009, 03:44

RVL III

Everytime I see a bottle it reminds of my first sundowner in Namibia....wife likes it in Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla too!

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03 June 2009, 21:38

kevin henderson

amarula mixed with brandy is great stuff but it will sneak up on you. Last time I had it I woke up next morning wrapped in an elk hide with two small dogs for company.
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03 June 2009, 22:28

L. David Keith

quote:
amarula mixed with brandy is great stuff but it will sneak up on you. Last time I had it I woke up next morning wrapped in an elk hide with two small dogs for company.

Kevin, just be glad it wasn't two Porcupine's...

03 June 2009, 23:04

Wendell Reich

quote:
Originally posted by kevin henderson:
amarula mixed with brandy is great stuff but it will sneak up on you. Last time I had it I woke up next morning wrapped in an elk hide with two small dogs for company.
kh

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03 June 2009, 23:11

Michael Robinson

Is it unethical to shoot a drunken elephant?

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03 June 2009, 23:33

DuggaBoye

quote:
Originally posted by mrlexma:
Is it unethical to shoot a drunken elephant?

Are we talking LSD shot or rifle shot??????

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04 June 2009, 00:50

BrettAKSCI

quote:
Originally posted by mrlexma:
Is it unethical to shoot a drunken elephant?

Only if they are trying to prevent a hangover at a water hole!

04 June 2009, 02:26

loud-n-boomer

Actually, the name of the movie is "Animals are Beautiful People" made by the same guy and in the same style as "The Gods Must be Crazy." It is a semi-documentary film about the animals in the Kalahari Desert. It is an entertaining film to watch.

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04 June 2009, 20:20

Sevens

That was hilarious - especially the elephant hunched forward still going after the fruit.

For all of you guys who want Amarula while back home, your local BevMo has it.

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