"One poppy flower gives around 20 to 25 grams of opium.But a large group of parrots feed on these plants around 30 to 40 times a day," one poppy cultivator in the Neemuch district of central India ...

Junkie parrots are plundering poppy fields to feed their opium addictions. They have learned not to squawk and fly silently into fields to nab the drug-laden pods. Video shows them retreating to ...

Intoxicated birds were seen acting dazed and unable to fly or even walk, while dozens died, after consuming opium poppy plants.

“One poppy flower gives around 20 to 25 grams of opium. But a large group of parrots feed on these plants around 30 to 40 times a day and some even fly away with poppy pods. This affects the ...

"One poppy flower gives around 20-25 grams of opium. But a large group of parrots feed on these plants around 30-40 times a day and some even fly away with poppy pods. This affects the produce ...

Poppy-pillaging parrots are the latest scourge of farmers in Tasmania. Flocks of hundreds of cockatoos are ravaging the fields of farmers who grow the plants that produce that bagel and kaiser roll… ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Cultivation of the Poppy and Manufacture of Opium ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 20 No. 17 (April 1869), p. 264 doi:10.1038 ...

Opium is a highly addictive narcotic derived from the poppy plant, used historically for pain relief, but now mainly known for its role in producing drugs like morphine and heroin.

Myanmar is now the world’s largest producer of opium, according to a United Nations report published Tuesday, overtaking Afghanistan as political turmoil drives more people to poppy farming amid ...

Some birds have been filmed tearing into unripe poppy pods (where opium-rich milk resides), while others use their beaks and claws to snip off the plants at their stalks and fly away with entire ...