While this might not seem like much, chimps eat so much fruit (around 10 percent of their body mass every day!), it ends up ...

Humans' love for alcohol may have ancestral roots tied to the diet of chimpanzees, "our closest living relatives," new research has shown.

Dudley co-authored a new paper published in the journal Science Advances reporting the first measurements of the ethanol ...

At both sites, chimps were estimated to ingest about 14 grams of ethanol per day. That’s the equivalent of 1.4 U.S. standard ...

"In fact, to get a buzz on, a chimp would have to eat so much fruit its stomach would bloat," according ... relative among the apes," according to the news release. The "drunken monkey" hypothesis ...

They found that the Ngogo chimps ate fruit with an average ethanol concentration of 0.32%, meaning that there was 1.1 ounces ...

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 ...