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Smoking tortoise found in China
« on: March 27, 2008, 08:48:45 PM »
BEIJING -- A tortoise that smokes and appears to be addicted to nicotine has been discovered in China's northeastern province of Jilin, state media reported on Thursday.

The animal is the pet of a man, identified by his surname Yun, who is himself a smoker, Xinhua news agency said, quoting a local newspaper.

One day, Yun teased the tortoise by putting a cigarette butt into its mouth, and to his surprise it started to smoke it, according to the news agency.

From then on, he shared his cigarettes with his pet, Xinhua said.

"It seems to have become addicted," Yun was quoted as saying.

"Whenever I smoke in front of it, it will stick its head out of the water and fidget about until I give it the stub."

Yun proved his claim by putting a cigarette in the tortoise's mouth in front the paper's reporter and his neighbors, Xinhua quoted the newspaper as saying.

To everyone's surprise, the tortoise finished it in less than four minutes, the news agency said.

Monkeys have been know to smoke in imitation of human beings, the deputy secretary-general of Jilin's Wildlife Conservation Society told Xinhua.

But he said he had never heard of a tortoise lighting up.


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Re: Smoking tortoise found in China
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2008, 10:19:40 PM »
Sounds funny,but it's not healthy.

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Re: Smoking tortoise found in China
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2008, 02:36:07 AM »
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Re: Smoking tortoise found in China
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2008, 03:58:45 AM »
But he said he had never heard of a tortoise lighting up.


ang ako lang ug mahutdan ang amo mag suroy2x na ang turtle on the street begging for Dope!





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Re: Smoking tortoise found in China
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2008, 05:44:51 AM »
This is actually a good research topic for an aquatics toxicology class; or for a comparative neuroscience research.

I'll recommend this to some of my students as a possible senior thesis project; one can actually study nicotine levels as a factor of addiction and irrate action per time. Say take 4 groups; 1. a control group, 2. a group exposed to minimum nicotine levels, 3. group exposed to medium nicotine levels and 4. group exposed to dangerously high nicotine levels. Utilize multivariate analysis and compare. One can then use extrapolation or even polynomial and conic extrapolation.

Another research option would be utilizing the said methodology as above, but this time sacrifice the animal. After the animal's death, decapitate the turtle and take millimeter slide samples of the turtle's limbic system of the brain. Analayze any heightened activity of cells that are indicative of addiction in say humans. Compare the results and make a discussion of the case.

This is a really interesting topic, and illustrates the broad-term effects of nicotine as a multi-species endorphinal effect.

Thanks for the article. :)

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