Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins.

Last year, Maro and his colleagues estimated wild chimpanzees’ alcohol intake based on the amount of fermented fruit they eat ...

Since you can’t exactly breathalyze a wild ape, Aleksey Maro, a UC Berkeley researcher, spent his days collecting chim ...

Scientists say that the phenomenon could one day help researchers understand alcohol abuse in humans A new study has found that chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of about two alcoholic beverages ...

Learn how urine tests revealed that wild chimpanzees metabolize alcohol from naturally fermented fruit, and what that could mean for human evolution.

WILD chimps have a taste for alcohol and consume the equivalent of 2.5 drinks a day, shock new research has revealed. The discovery is the strongest evidence yet for a long-running theory on why ...

Scientists found that chimpanzees consume alcohol from naturally fermented fruit, offering new clues about animal diets and ...

Chimpanzees would fail a breathalyser test because they consume fruit containing alcohol, a study has found. Researchers ...

In nanograms per milliliter, these are coming in way above some of the clinically relevant and forensically relevant human ...

Chimps really are "drunken monkeys" - and actively seek out alcohol in their native habitat, suggests new research. Urine ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found chimpanzees eating fermented fruit in their native habitats consume the equivalent of nearly two alcoholic drinks per day.