[SIDENET]

Rotten fruit on the ground can ferment enough to cause drunkenness?

It's a damn good thing I didn't know about this back in high school.

[FLOutdoorsman]

I must confess to killing many drunken birds while they were eating from mulberry trees.

[SAJ]

In the Serengheti, when it rains a bit ''too late'' for that delicate desert's ecosystem, various fruit fall from trees and ferment in the hot, moist air.

And you have never seen anything more hilarious than a giraffe who has eaten a bunch of these fruit and who is blitzed out of his (her?) gourd. Mack Sennett had NOTHING on this.

[SAJ]

See #9. (g!)