A new study has found that chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of about two alcoholic beverages a day through fermented fruit. The study, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Science ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found chimpanzees eating fermented fruit in their native habitats consume the equivalent of nearly two alcoholic drinks per day.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to beverages that are good for you, kombucha—a fermented drink made from tea, sugar and yeast—usually comes out on ...

Alcohol can make you woozy and nauseous when you drink too much, but why do humans love it? Wild chimpanzees may hold the answer. Chimps could be eating enough fermented fruit each day and consuming ...

(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 ...

In the lush canopies of Guinea-Bissau’s Cantanhez National Park, a group of wild chimpanzees has been caught in a moment that’s oddly familiar: eating and sharing fruit laced with alcohol. For the ...

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 collected and analyzed urine from chimpanzees in a Ugandan forest after they'd eaten fermented fruit to determine how much alcohol they'd consumed. (Sharifah Namaganda) For 11 days in late ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The chimpanzees ate around 4.5 kilograms (10 pounds) of fruit a day. - Aleksey Maro Chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of ...