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

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

"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 ...

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 ...

Chimpanzee (Photo ... integrative biology Robert Dudley first floated the “drunken monkey” hypothesis in 2000, arguing that our attraction to alcohol could come from ancestral fruit-eating habits.

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 ...