All they had to do was eat overripe berries, like birds have done for millennia.
Yes, but birds ‘run hot’ and metabolize very fast.
I had a little sparrow who really loved his tiny thimble of wine, now and then. (He sang along with Perry Como, in the early ‘nineties, while I was listening to a TV broadcast of Como’s last live performance....)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Como%27s_Christmas_Concert
-JT
“All they had to do was eat overripe berries, like birds have done for millennia.”
And THAT is why birds are always high as kites.