[quote]Humans have been using alcohol as a medicine since ancient times, using it as an antiseptic and a pain killer, among other things. We're not the only species that does so, apparently. According to biologists at Emory University, fruit flies force alcohol on their larvae to protect them from parasitic wasps.
Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) have adapted to be able to largely digest alcohol in their main food source, the rot on overripe and fermenting fruit. Fruit fly larvae been known to self-medicate, consuming high levels of alcohol in order to fight off endoparasitoid wasps, which lay eggs inside fruit flies that eventually hatch and eat their host from the inside out. The alcohol is still somewhat toxic for them, but the wasps, which don't have a tolerance for the toxic effects, are a bigger danger, so the flies kill the parasite by raising their own blood alcohol levels.[/quote]
[url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/fruit-flies-force-feed-their-children-alcohol[/url]
I wish I was a fruit fly.
Even fruit flies self-medicate every now and then. Each and every day, they are becoming just like us.
What, is there something wrong with giving your kids alcohol?
Edit: Uh oh
But when [b][i]I[/i][/b] do it, they take the kids away.
Guys, it's not like there getting drunk with their simple nervous systems anyway
[QUOTE=tyanet;39729625]But when [b][i]I[/i][/b] do it, they take the kids away.[/QUOTE]
Its legal to give your kid of any age alcohol over here :v:
[QUOTE=Stormcharger;39731864]Its legal to give your kid of any age alcohol over here :v:[/QUOTE]
Where is that? I've heard of places that allow younger people to drink with adult consent but not at [I]any[/I] age.
[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;39729470]I wish I was a fruit fly.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE] ... consuming high levels of alcohol[B] in order to fight off endoparasitoid wasps, which lay eggs inside fruit flies[/B] [B][U]that eventually hatch and eat their host [I]from the inside out[/I][/U][/B][/QUOTE]
[editline]27th February 2013[/editline]
Imagine being eaten inside out.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;39732729]Where is that? I've heard of places that allow younger people to drink with adult consent but not at [I]any[/I] age.[/QUOTE]His profile says New Zealand. Hadn't known the law was like that over there, myself; only possible example that came to my mind was France.
[QUOTE=Swebonny;39732737][editline]27th February 2013[/editline]
Imagine being eaten inside out.[/QUOTE]
I feel like that sometimes when I haven't eaten all day
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;39732729]Where is that? I've heard of places that allow younger people to drink with adult consent but not at [I]any[/I] age.[/QUOTE]
Even if it was legal the U.S. is a civilized 1st world country where the citizens are decent enough not to use such law to its full extent.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;39732772]Even if it was legal the U.S. is a civilized 1st world country where the citizens are decent enough not to use such law to its full extent.[/QUOTE]
I think you are underestimating how much of our alcohol culture is centered on binge drinking.
imagine if WE did that...
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