We ’ve hadcocaine bear , the depressing story of a bear that eat up 31.8 kilograms ( 70 pounds ) of cocaine lost during a drug deal . Now , get quick for something just as uncheerful : cocaine sharks .
In a documentary for the Discovery Channel ’s Shark Week , an environmental scientist from the University of Florida , Tracy Fanara , and marine biologist and YouTuberTom Hirdinvestigated whether sharks off the coast of Florida could be ingest cocaine . While it ’s very heavy to find a dealer in the Atlantic , software package of drugs have washed up on the shoring for decennium from smugglers dumping their draw , e.g. to parry law enforcement .
Live Sciencereports that the team did a number of tests to see if sharks would go for bales of cocaine in real living . First , they dropped packages made to appear like cocaine to the untrained heart ( in this display case , sharks ' ) into the piddle , next to fake swan to see what the shark headed for . Worryingly , the sharks go for the packet , take snack out of what – in less honourable circumstances – could have been a big haul of cocaine .
In another part of the experiment , to be shown on the Discovery Channel on July 26 , the squad put down the packages from a planing machine , just like a real - life drug drib . This time , several species of shark went in for a taste .
The squad hopes to conduct test on tissue paper and blood samples to see if cocain and other drugs are getting into their systems in the real man .
" The other thing we might obtain is actually this long flow , [ this ] drip of pharmaceuticals : caffeine , lidocaine , cocaine , amphetamine , antidepressant drug , birth control – this long dull drift of them from cities into the [ sea ] is … starting to make these beast , " Hird told Live Science .
More evidence would be want to conclude that sharks are eating cocaine in substantial life , but it is nevertheless concerning behavior , especially given the unknown event it has onfish . inquiry in2018showed that low horizontal surface of cocain in water supplies can " cause severe price to the morphology and physiology of the skeletal muscle of the silver eel , confirming the harmful impact of cocain in the environment that potentially affects the natural selection of this species . "
Anotherstudyin 2019 found that freshwater amphipods in rural Suffolk , UK , test positive for cocain , ketamine , Xanax , and Valium , which had made their elbow room into the body of water supply . Though we ’re not sure this one will be made into a film likeCocaine BearandCocaine Shark , IFLScience modesty all rightfield to the phraseCocaine Crustacean : Time To Krill .
[ H / T : Live Science ]
