“‘Drunk as a dog,’ the Inuit like to say. The phrase comes from the behavior of sled dogs after they eat the raw flesh of Greenland sharks, which often contains a strong neurotoxin. One of the few ways to detoxify the flesh is to soak a dead shark in salt water for several days.”

(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Greenland Sharks," September 1998, National Geographic magazine)