
Wild chimpanzees may get mildly intoxicated from alcoholic fruit
Two male chimpanzees eating the plum-like fruit of the evergreen Parinari excelsa tree at Taï National Park in Ivory Coast Aleksey Maro/UC Berkeley Wild chimpanzees scoffing fermented fruit consume the equivalent of two glasses of wine per day, factoring in their body size compared with us. It has long been known that many primates, including…