Scientists say they have got high on the nitrous oxide released by penguin poo. The levels of the laughing gas given off by the faeces of a colony on the Atlantic island of South Georgia was about 100 times higher than in a fertilised field. Professor Bo Elberling, of the University of Copenhagen, said the “truly intense” amount of nitrous oxide inhaled was enough to send someone “completely cuckoo”.
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