Sept. 18 (UPI) --Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found chimpanzees eating fermented fruit in their native habitats consume the equivalent of nearly two alcoholic drinks per day.
More primatologists now report seeing monkeys and apes eating fermented fruit, a practice that was recorded earlier this year among chimps in Guinea-Bissau. And it's not only mammals that get a daily ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The chimps don't appear to show signs of intoxication. With this information, the researchers calculated that chimps at both sites ...
When chimpanzees eat ripe figs and other fruits in the wild, it’s a surprisingly boozy feast—the fruit they consume in a day contains the equivalent of a couple of adult beverages. That’s the upshot ...