Jun 9, 2015 · Scientists are serving up the best evidence yet that chimpanzees don't mind the taste of alcohol — and in fact will go out of their way for a drink. The findings support the view that the common...

The drunken monkey hypothesis proposes that human attraction to alcohol may derive from dependence of the primate ancestors of Homo sapiens on ripe and fermenting fruit as a dominant food source. [1] .

Dec 5, 2019 · The fruit that apes were eating was probably 1 to 4 percent alcohol, somewhere between small beer and Michelob Ultra.

Jun 10, 2015 · Scientists studying chimpanzees in Guinea have seen evidence of long-term and recurrent ingestion of ethanol by apes. The 17-year study recorded chimps using leaves to drink fermented palm sap....

Jun 10, 2015 · Chimps in the west African country of Guinea discovered a free treat in raffia palms tapped by local people to extract a sweet, milky sap which then ferments into an alcoholic drink.

Jun 10, 2015 · Scientists spotted wild chimps guzzling wine not once, not twice, but 51 times over the course of a 17-year study in the village of Bossou in Guinea, according to research published Tuesday in...

Jun 10, 2015 · A new study tracking the drinking habits of wild chimps in West Africa have found that they regularly steal a little of the alcoholic beverages made by locals.

Jun 9, 2015 · But there’s one big problem with this so-called drunken monkey hypothesis: apes had not really been seen downing alcohol in the wild. That is, until now. The researchers were studying chimps in...

Feb 18, 2013 · The ability to metabolize ethanol — the alcohol in beer, wine and spirits — might have originated in the common ancestor of chimpanzees, gorillas and humans roughly 10 million years ago ...

Jun 9, 2015 · Now, researchers say they have confirmed, for the first time, that wild apes habitually drink alcohol. [Watch Wild Chimps Sucking Down Palm Wine (Video)] The scientists watched wild...