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#1
Quote from: gurudedicationananda on December 20, 2017, 04:12:03 PM
Thanks for this information.
What I wanted to add here is that I feel that it is highly irresponsible and also cruel go into the Sonoran Desert and capture a bunch of toads, collective milk all of them for their venom, and then throw them back into nature after having depleted them of their defense mechanism.


I have felt that same way. They need the defense in their natural habitat
#2
Ethics and Ecology / Re: Amphibians on Earth
January 04, 2018, 04:46:54 PM
Quote from: Flux on June 02, 2017, 06:15:45 AM
Thanks Shy Violet,

This is the prefect post for seeding the Ethics and Ecology section

It also reminded me of a discussion recently about Bufo Alvarius not 'needing' to produce 5-MeO because of the bio-availability of other bufotoxins it has to potentially deter predators and that it produces 5-MeO as a result of living underground for 9 months of the year and the relationship between 5-MeO and light.

This was idea was supported via way of testaments to darkness retreats invoking 5-MeO like states and the (somewhat speculative?) cascade relationship between melanin, melatonin, tryptophan, serotonin, pinoline and 5-MeO-DMT in the human brain.

Well the crux of idea was; that the Australian Cane Toad (Bufo Marinus) being so closely related to Bufo Alvarius could, if environmentally necessitated to hibernate underground... also begin to produce 5-MeO-DMT.

An exciting if not wild idea :)

thoughts most welcome :)


I have heard that hibernation is not required for 5meo production
#3
Introductions/Newbies / East Coast US.
January 04, 2018, 04:36:32 PM
Thank you all for accepting me. I have been researching 5meodmt and bufo alvarius for years and have had a bufo toad for 1 year now. I have never taken from her nor experienced any 5meo. She came from a pet store that got her from a reptile breeder on the mid east coast united states. I look forward to reading every topic here and contribute somehow someday to the protection of the toads