Wild chimpanzees across multiple African field sites regularly consume ethanol through ripe and fermented fruit, absorbing enough alcohol to register in their urine and potentially shedding light on ...

Last year, Maro and his colleagues estimated wild chimpanzees’ alcohol intake based on the amount of fermented fruit they eat ...

Alcohol can make you woozy and nauseous when you drink too much, but why do humans love it? Wild chimpanzees may hold the answer. Chimps could be eating enough fermented fruit each day and consuming ...

Scientists say that the phenomenon could one day help researchers understand alcohol abuse in humans A new study has found that chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of about two alcoholic beverages ...

Scientists found that chimpanzees consume alcohol from naturally fermented fruit, offering new clues about animal diets and ...

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This ...

Human cravings for booze may have deep evolutionary roots, a new study has shown. The study, published in Science Advances, involved observing the eating behaviors of chimpanzees—"our closest living ...

A chimpanzee eating figs at Ngogo in Uganda's Kibale National Park in 2018. UC Berkeley biologists measured the ethanol content of many types of fruit that chimps routinely consume and found that they ...

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