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 ...

Researchers at UC Berkeley confirmed wild chimps consume the equivalent of two standard drinks per day from fermented fruit, making them the most consistent drinkers in any study not involving ...

Chimps consume the equivalent of at least one alcoholic drink a day as they eat fermenting fruit, says a study that could ...

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 ...

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 ...