:smilielol5:.^^^..Ok, so I do millipedes, so what?...I learned it from you, dad.... Alright?!!... I learned it from watching youuu... ZW
dang what would rep be like from orison..? would the recipient immediately go up 235235 bars? hahah. Animal Planet is the shit.
Oh snap, sorry to most people "it's just there" and "this substance that makes animals act like lunatics is purposely meant to attract them" are generally regarded as pretty asinine responses to psilocybin being a defense mechanism. I'm only dismissive because your the counter theories proposed aren't even theories, they're just vague ideas with no real grounding to back them up beyond the original statement.
Those cats are tripping balls! "Meeooww, I think I did way too much. Meow Meow just ate a whole ten strip, and now I am not."
I hate to point this out, but the phrase, "directly affects their ability to reproduce", does not apply to psilocybin. Psilocybin is a secondary metabolite. Secondary metabolites are organic compounds that are not directly involved in the normal growth, development, or reproduction of organisms. I would point out some other alkaloids that are commonly consumed by the worlds human population, caffeine, capsaicin, codeine, morphine, nicotine, Thc, cocaine.
I was saying that the ability to protect one's self from predators directly correlates to the ability to reproduce.
This is true, and in addition, at a certain level every positive expression towards the maintainability of life could be construed as defensive.