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 ...

Researchers have found monkeys in South and Central America that mix more fruit into their daily diet than a Jamba Juice addict. According to the BBC, researchers analyzed primate diets from 290 ...

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 ...

Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from ...

(CNN) — Chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of about one alcoholic drink per day due to the ethanol contained within the fruit they eat, according to a new study. Understanding this behavior of our ...

An extinct relative of the howler monkey may have been the first leaf-eating primate in South and Central America ...

Source: Julia Casorso, used with permission. Anecdotes from around the world describe wild animals—everything from wasps to songbirds to baboons—acting drunk after feeding on fermented fruits. But ...