Study Reveals That Wild Chimps Consume a Surprising Amount of Alcohol Every Day

Scitech Daily ^ | November 20, 2025 | Robert Sanders, University of California - Berkeley

[Red Badger]

[budj]

I, myself, have been known to become a bit wild under similar circumstances.

[Repeal The 17th]

I have seen squirrels get drunk on fermented scuppernongs.

[Red Badger]

Yep!..................

[Hyman Roth]

While it remains uncertain whether chimpanzees intentionally seek out fruits with higher……….

I’m no researcher but I would bet my house on they no exactly what they are doing. 😎😎

[Red Badger]

Of course they do!

Soon they’ll be robbing liquor stores..............

[BookmanTheJanitor]

[circlecity]

Oh, right, next thing you know they will try to extrapolate these findings and claim that some humans also find and consume alcohol to excess. Junk science. Junk science.

[kawhill]

“Across all sites, male and female chimpanzees are consuming about 14 grams of pure ethanol per day in their diet, which is the equivalent to one standard American drink,” said UC Berkeley graduate student Aleksey Maro of the Department of Integrative Biology. “When you adjust for body mass, because chimps weigh about 40 kilos versus a typical human at 70 kilos, it goes up to nearly two drinks.” Thanks Aleksey, what if it was three once in a while?

[Paladin2]

Whatever gets you through the day....

[HYPOCRACY]

It’s also possible that sharing alcohol-infused fruit plays a role in social bonding among primates or other animals.

[Red Badger]

CHEETAH: “Honest, Tarzan, I only had one drink!”................

[Paladin2]

It pays the bills while fleecing the actual Makers....

[tumblindice]

“Hi. My name is Cheetah.”
(Everyone) Hi Cheetah.

[Red Badger]

LOL!..................

[Hyman Roth]

Someone needs to post a gorilla 🦍 being looter guy.

[Mercat]

We have mulberries, cherries, autumn olive. The pears are the critters’ favorite. This time of year a lot of them are on the ground happily rotting away. As they rot, they ferment. The robins especially love them but then they get disoriented, slam into the window and often die.from a broken neck. The coyotes and our dog also love them.

[Red Badger]

Mulberries don’t have a lot of sugar to ferment...............

[gundog]

”And I sez to him, I sez “You never heard of monkey bars?”

[glorgau]

> two standard alcoholic drinks per day through their fruit-based diet

Those are rookie numbers.