Berkeley, California - Chimpanzees consume the equivalent of at least one alcoholic drink per day as they eat ripe, fermenting fruit, says a new study that addresses one possible reason why humans are ...

A chimpanzee eating figs at Ngogo in Uganda's Kibale National Park in 2018. (Aleksey Maro/UC Berkeley) (CN) — By eating fermented fruit, wild chimpanzees may be regularly consuming the equivalent of ...

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Chimps really are "drunken monkeys" - and actively seek out alcohol in their native habitat, suggests new research. Urine testing confirmed alcohol consumption among wild African chimpanzees with 17 ...

Maro also analyzed the alcohol content of the star apple the chimps were gorging on, thanks to a bumper crop available. Based on undamaged fruits collected under the trees, the star apples contained ...