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Just like us: chimps consume more than a drink a day

Gail P Sherman
Sep 18, 2025
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Many animals have been known to consume fermented fruit, sometimes intentionally, and experience the psychoactive effects of alcohol. It turns out that chimpanzees, our closest living relative, consume the equivalent of almost one and a half alcoholic beverages a day via their regular diet.

A paper published in Science Advances studied th…

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