Chimpanzee Consumption of Boozy Fruit May Illuminate Roots of Humanity’s Love of Alcohol ...
As omnivorous creatures, chimpanzees eat all sorts of things, including fruits, termites, tiny rodents, and even full-grown monkeys. As for chimps eating reptiles, that’s completely unheard of—until ...
While this might not seem like much, chimps eat so much fruit (around 10 percent of their body mass every day!), it ends up ...
They found that the Ngogo chimps ate fruit with an average ethanol concentration of 0.32%, meaning that there was 1.1 ounces ...
Dudley co-authored a new paper published in the journal Science Advances reporting the first measurements of the ethanol ...
"In fact, to get a buzz on, a chimp would have to eat so much fruit its stomach would bloat," according ... relative among the apes," according to the news release. The "drunken monkey" hypothesis ...
WASHINGTON — The ancestry of the virus that caused the AIDS epidemic has been traced to two strains of virus found in monkeys in Africa. The viruses probably passed into chimpanzees when they ate ...