Wild chimpanzees' fermented fruit diet supports 'drunken monkey' theory
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Wild chimpanzees in Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire consume fermented fruit containing about 0.3% alcohol, which amounts to roughly two human cocktails per day, highlighting their natural exposure to alcohol through diet.
- Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds CBS News
- Chimps 'lager a day' in ripe fruit fuels drunken monkey theory BBC
- Chimps consume equivalent of a beer a day in alcohol from fermented fruit The Guardian
- Berkeley scientists find more evidence for 'drunken monkey' hypothesis SFGATE
- Chimpanzee Consumption of Boozy Fruit May Illuminate Roots of Humanity’s Love of Alcohol Scientific American
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