Are these chimps having a fruity booze-up in the wild? arstechnica.com 11 points by PaulHoule 17 hours ago
tbrownaw 16 hours ago So is the new part that it's apes instead of monkeys, or that they're sharing and being picky about that? Because I know monkeys have been known to get drunk since quite a while ago.
euroderf 10 hours ago FWIW there was an entire book on the subject of animal intoxication published some years ago, its name escapes me ATM.
PlunderBunny 14 hours ago Even birds can deliberately make themselves intoxicated:https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/drunk-kereru-fall-from-trees/P...
So is the new part that it's apes instead of monkeys, or that they're sharing and being picky about that? Because I know monkeys have been known to get drunk since quite a while ago.
FWIW there was an entire book on the subject of animal intoxication published some years ago, its name escapes me ATM.
Even birds can deliberately make themselves intoxicated:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/drunk-kereru-fall-from-trees/P...