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Move over Cocaine Bear and Cocaine Hippos, there’s a new coked-up creature in the animal kingdom: sharks. Okay, there were already reports of cocaine-guzzling sharks in Florida feeding off dumped packages from drug smugglers, but now there are drug-fueled finned creatures in and around Brazil as well.
Dr Rachel Ann Hauser-Davis, a British scientist and member of the research team from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, said this was 'due to human use of cocaine in Rio de Janeiro and the discharge of human urine and faeces by sewage outfalls, as well as from illegal labs'. Dr Tracy Fanara, an expert in ecotoxicology and environmental engineering from the University of Florida, told The Telegraph: "They may not be going nuts from the cocaine but it could reduce their life expectancy.
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