Are these chimps having a fruity booze-up in the wild?

arstechnica.com

11 points by PaulHoule 17 hours ago


tbrownaw - 16 hours ago

So is the new part that it's apes instead of monkeys, or that they're sharing and being picky about that? Because I know monkeys have been known to get drunk since quite a while ago.

euroderf - 10 hours ago

FWIW there was an entire book on the subject of animal intoxication published some years ago, its name escapes me ATM.

PlunderBunny - 14 hours ago

Even birds can deliberately make themselves intoxicated:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/drunk-kereru-fall-from-trees/P...