I wouldn't want that job.
Birds go for fermented fruit all the time. They have a high alcohol tolerance, but do get drunk sometimes.
“they were actually using it…“
Actually.
How much of this “research” was hands on? Tax money goes to get monkeys drunk? They could have given me a couple mill and I’d have told them why humans drink. Why? Because they like to.
Meh. A good ‘hunch punch’ consists of Hi-C, Graves grain alcohol, cherries, Mandarin orange slices. grapes, and pineapple tidbits, all fermented together for about 24 hours. The MOAB of party punches.
That’s probably what got them swingin’.
Photos from frat parties proved that finding years ago.
They took things a step further and collected urine samples from the wild monkeys
Now there is a job Kamala Harris could get a grip on!
Yeah, don’t give the dog beer. At first they hate the smell and pull away but if they drink it, they’ll hear that low psst of the bottle cap opening a mile away and come running.
Alcohol-producing gut bacteria could cause liver damage even in people who don't drink
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190919142336.htm
It is unlikely the monkeys feel the effects of the alcohol, according to the scientists. The thinking is that they would seek out the fermented fruit for its higher concentration of calories, which equates to more energy.
I sure they eat the fruit just for the calories, sure.
I have seen squirrels and birds drunk on fermented scuppernongs.
It’s not just monkies and birds but elephants as well. The seek out marula trees containing fermenting fruit. Giving drunken elephants a wide pass is smart.
Wait til those monkeys get a taste of Colt 45
Just because a chemical is metabolized doesn’t mean it is supplying energy yo the consumer. Just about all drugs are metabolized in one way or another. Ethanol does supply energy to humans for sure. It was used intravenously rarely to counter methanol toxicity or decrease side effects of ethanol withdrawal, or even as a supplier of calories. Other animals have been known to eat fermented fruit..so the drunken monkey connection seems to be a “cherry picked” hypothesis. The better question to ask is, how did mankind learn to find, reproduce, distill ethanol from fruit in such amounts that it is a source of great toxicity to ourselves?
The field study could have been done in any college bar.
Stacey Abrams is living proof of this theory/observation.
“Collected urine samples from the wild monkeys”
I heard Jen Psaki was getting a new job.