Doctoral student Aleksey Maro and his adviser Professor Robert Dudley, from the University of California, Berkeley, ...

Wild chimpanzees across multiple African field sites regularly consume ethanol through ripe and fermented fruit, absorbing enough alcohol to register in their urine and potentially shedding light on ...

Last year, Maro and his colleagues estimated wild chimpanzees’ alcohol intake based on the amount of fermented fruit they eat each day and the ethanol content of their favorite snacks. With those ...

Scientists analyzed the urine of wild chimpanzees who'd feasted on fallen fruit to see how much alcohol they consumed from ...

Chimpanzees love their alcohol. Among our closest primate relatives, they frequently feast on fermented fruit in the wild. So ...

Scientists found that chimpanzees consume alcohol from naturally fermented fruit, offering new clues about animal diets and ...

When chimpanzees eat ripe figs and other fruits in the wild, it’s a surprisingly boozy feast—the fruit they consume in a day contains the equivalent of a couple of adult beverages. That’s the upshot ...

Chimpanzees would fail breathalyser tests due to alcoholic fruit intake, study finds - Research shows that chimpanzees may actively seek out alcoholic fruits ...

A study has revealed that chimpanzees in the wild consume enough alcohol from fermenting fruits to be comparable to human light drinking. Researchers, including UC Berkley Phd student Aleksey Maro, ...