{"id":48057,"date":"2025-09-17T18:27:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wild-chimpanzees-consume-the-equivalent-of-2-cocktails-a-day-in-the-form-of-boozy-fruit-research-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:27:30","slug":"wild-chimpanzees-consume-the-equivalent-of-2-cocktails-a-day-in-the-form-of-boozy-fruit-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/wild-chimpanzees-consume-the-equivalent-of-2-cocktails-a-day-in-the-form-of-boozy-fruit-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>In the forests of Uganda and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/chimp-haven-the-worlds-largest-chimpanzee-sanctuary\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">chimps<\/a><\/span> crowd into fig and plum trees, feasting on fruit that&#8217;s sweet, soft and just a little boozy. A new study shows those daily snacks quietly add up to the equivalent of nearly two alcoholic beverages for humans.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists at University of California Berkeley and other institutions tested the fruit chimps actually snack on: figs in Uganda&#8217;s canopy and the plum-like fruits on the forest floor in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire. Collecting the data wasn&#8217;t easy \u2014 with little electricity beyond solar panels and constant humidity threatening the instruments, researchers spent three seasons hauling equipment and calibrating test kits to measure alcohol in many different tropical fruits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the end, they found that on average, the fruit&#8217;s alcohol content came in at about .3% by weight. This is kombucha-level, but when chimpanzees eat 10 pounds of fruit a day and weigh around 90 pounds, it adds up to about 14 grams of ethanol, equating to about two cocktails for a human.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t picture chimps swinging drunkenly from the trees. To actually get drunk, they&#8217;d have to binge on fruit until their bellies ballooned, the researchers said. Instead, they&#8217;re exposed to a steady low dose, a quiet buzz from nature&#8217;s own fermentation process.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/17\/7f8b09e7-a6ce-450a-abc9-2d914ef1878d\/thumbnail\/620x413\/992ba9cf521aeabd7693f73d4a0358ce\/ngogo-2018-hicks-in-ficus-mucuso.jpg#\" alt=\"ngogo-2018-hicks-in-ficus-mucuso.jpg \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/17\/7f8b09e7-a6ce-450a-abc9-2d914ef1878d\/thumbnail\/620x413\/992ba9cf521aeabd7693f73d4a0358ce\/ngogo-2018-hicks-in-ficus-mucuso.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/17\/7f8b09e7-a6ce-450a-abc9-2d914ef1878d\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/174276137d5e797e28583048eb27926d\/ngogo-2018-hicks-in-ficus-mucuso.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Researchers tested the fruit chimps snack on in Uganda and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, finding the alcohol content is about .3% by weight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Aleksey Maro\/UC Berkeley<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senior author of the paper and UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology Robert Dudley first floated the &#8220;drunken monkey&#8221; hypothesis in 2000, arguing that our attraction to alcohol could come from ancestral fruit-eating habits. Dudley argued that it makes sense primates would be tuned to alcohol, since their diets have long revolved around ripe fruit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<\/em>Once you start eating, it acts as an aperitif,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The pleasure of association with drinking alcohol increases feeding rates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other animals chase the same buzz too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Open a bottle of beer outside and a fruit fly appears almost instantly,&#8221; Dudley said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.berkeley.edu\/2022\/03\/30\/monkeys-routinely-eat-fruit-containing-alcohol-shedding-light-on-our-own-taste-for-booze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spider monkeys in Panama<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/home.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2016\/07\/dartmouth-study-aye-ayes-and-slow-loris-finds-prosimians-prefer-alcohol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">slow lorises in Malaysia<\/a> and even <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/ece3.6777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">elephants<\/a> have been documented consuming naturally fermented fruit or nectar.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What makes this study different is that it provides the first direct chemical measurements of ethanol in the fruits that wild chimps routinely eat, and then connects those numbers to daily intake.<\/p>\n<p>The open question is whether chimps are actually selecting fruit for its alcohol content or just chasing sugar and calories. Either way, Dudley says the story connects to us.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We inherited the taste for alcohol,&#8221; Dudley said. &#8220;Even though our diets have diversified \u2026 that bias to consume quickly when this molecule is present could still be a powerful force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/17\/c7c4c41d-ee6f-4534-8793-ed627d9b8420\/thumbnail\/620x357\/0e24339fd9bc6eddc49bd88431159cbb\/tai-northerner-males-at-parinari-excelsa.jpg#\" alt=\"tai-northerner-males-at-parinari-excelsa.jpg \" height=\"357\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/17\/c7c4c41d-ee6f-4534-8793-ed627d9b8420\/thumbnail\/620x357\/0e24339fd9bc6eddc49bd88431159cbb\/tai-northerner-males-at-parinari-excelsa.jpg 1x, 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