Just for the record: many lemurs smell strongly of Maggi. Ask anyone who had some on their head and shoulders.
And please don’t lick them.
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I was on a nature walk with a nature buff who picked up a millipede, harassed it a little bit, and had the rest of us smell the results. Almonds. I’d read enough Agatha Christie to know what that meant. I didn’t think to lick it.
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Is Maggi a National Geographic photographer?
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Just the drooling poisonous wide-eyed Global South we needed.
You know millipedes are a gateway bug.
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Most millipedes produce either cyanide or benzoquinone for their defense. Those definitely will not work for humans. They’re unpleasant.
I wonder if lemurs really that different from us. I can certainly see reacting to those things, but it’s kind of hard to imagine it being a high. Do either of them penetrate the blood-brain barrier, or act at all similar to neurotransmitters, or anything of the sort?
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The benzoquinone helps kill parasites in the lemurs’ fur and biting the millipedes causes them to excrete much more of it, but I can’t find any reference describing known compounds from the millipedes that would produce an enjoyable effect in the lemurs (except for the relief of having fewer parasites).
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Yeah but what would you do if I sang out of tune??? Hmmmm???
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