Wild chimpanzees consume 2 cocktails' worth of alcohol a day by feasting on boozy fruit: study

Monkey see, monkey booze.

Wild chimpanzees in the forests of Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire consume roughly two boozy beverages’ worth of overripe, fermented fruit a day, according to a new study.

Chimps glug down 14 grams of ethanol in the roughly 10 pounds of fruit they feast on per day, adding up to an equivalent of two alcoholic drinks for a human, according to the paper published Wednesday in Science Advances by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.

Biologists discovered the apparent jungle juice by testing the alcohol content of fruit that chimps eat in the lush canopies and grounds of Kibale National Park in Uganda and Taï National Park in the Ivory Coast.

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