Chimpanzees consume 'two alcoholic drinks a day', study says

Human and chimp ancestor may have had a taste for alcohol

Male chimpanzees eating the plum-like fruit of the evergreen Parinari excelsa tree at Taï National Park in the Ivory Coast in 2021. Credit: Aleksey Maro/UC Berkeley The first study to survey the ethanol content of fruits eaten by chimpanzees suggests the primates could easily be consuming the equivalent of more than 2 standard alcoholic drinks a day. While the researchers couldn’t determine whether the chimps pick these fruits because they are r…

Chimps consume alcohol equivalent of nearly 2 drinks a day

It’s the latest evidence in support of Robert Dudley’s controversial “drunk monkey” hypothesis.

Chimpanzees ingest more than the equivalent of one alcoholic drink a day – new research

apple2499Drinking more than you intended may be something that many humans do, but now research is showing that a taste for alcohol is surprisingly common among animals. In fact a new study has found that chimpanzees may ingest the equivalent of two alcoholic drinks a day from eating fermented fruit. In the last ten years or so, there has been growing evidence that the ingestion of alcohol might be more widespread across the animal kingdom than …

Tipsy Chimps? Study Reveals Wild Apes Consume the Equivalent of Two Drinks a Day

Who thought alcohol would be the one thing that brought us closer to being related to chimps than we thought? A new study suggests that chimpanzees in the wild are consuming the equivalent of several alcoholic drinks each day. Biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered that fruit eaten by chimpanzees in Africa often contains measurable levels of ethanol, as the apes are ingesting the equivalent of two alcoholic drinks …