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To: VadeRetro
Birds and bears get drunk on berries and fruit fermenting right on the vine. Wine happens.

I saw a program on the Discovery Channel several years ago that followed a colony (or whatever a group is called) of either baboons or monkeys for a whole year. It was compressed into a one hour program but at one point in the season, apples or some other fruit ripened and fell from the tree and began to rot on the ground. This would lead to natural fermentation from the heat, sugar, and yeast. The baboons would eat the fermenting fruit and get drunk. The film footage of these drunk baboons staggering around and finally falling down to pass out and sleep it off was really hilarious. Seems like it was in the Kalahari.

64 posted on 06/19/2006 5:55:39 PM PDT by Eagle9
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To: Eagle9
Yeah, a drunk baboon troop is funny. But wait'll it's bears.
65 posted on 06/19/2006 6:06:32 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
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