I believe that this video clip is pirated from a 1974 movie,
"Animals are Beautiful People". If so, the marula tree intoxications
likely were staged, as the Wikipedia article on this subject suggests.
Try a Google search on the movie title.
The elephants and I actually got hammered on peach Schnapps and then decided "hey, wouldn't it be funny to film a documentary?!" It was really just a bunch of us adolescent pachyderms experimenting and trying to act like adults. We didn't mean for anyone to get hurt.
Ha! Anyone seen 'Overdrawn at the Memory Bank'? Hmm.. probably not. Unless you like MST3K, that is. It's a made for PBS movie starring Raul Julia. They use footage from this. Priceless. "He looks drunk to me!"
I've got a bad feeling these were staged, as were so many animal documentaries. How exactly are the fruit going to ferment in the stomach? Unlikely at best. They probably shot the animals with tranqulizers or something.
Clip is dead. I am sad. I want to see a booze tree.
***New Response from Zooillogix - should be fixed ***
There's a nice cream liquer called Amarula that is flavoured with the marula fruit. Has a really lovely taste to it.
Glad the clip link is fixed! Now I need to get some headphones so I can actually hear the audio . . .
Welcome to Scienceblogs! Looking forward to your fauna postings. :)
I know that feeling.
And Amarula really is a pretty decent little cream liquer. In coffee or over ice, a couple of those and you'll feel like you're in Africa too.
I vaguely remember this clip from some old documentary. It was funny as hell then, and it still is...
I believe that this video clip is pirated from a 1974 movie,
"Animals are Beautiful People". If so, the marula tree intoxications
likely were staged, as the Wikipedia article on this subject suggests.
Try a Google search on the movie title.
Backgammon, Mark?
The elephants and I actually got hammered on peach Schnapps and then decided "hey, wouldn't it be funny to film a documentary?!" It was really just a bunch of us adolescent pachyderms experimenting and trying to act like adults. We didn't mean for anyone to get hurt.
Ha! Anyone seen 'Overdrawn at the Memory Bank'? Hmm.. probably not. Unless you like MST3K, that is. It's a made for PBS movie starring Raul Julia. They use footage from this. Priceless. "He looks drunk to me!"
I've got a bad feeling these were staged, as were so many animal documentaries. How exactly are the fruit going to ferment in the stomach? Unlikely at best. They probably shot the animals with tranqulizers or something.
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