Monkeys routinely consume fruit containing alcohol, shedding light on our own taste for booze
Journal Reference: Christina J. Campbell, Aleksey Maro, Victoria Weaver, Robert Dudley. Dietary ethanol ingestion by free-ranging spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi ). Royal Society Open Science, 2022; 9 (3) DOI: 10.1098/rsos.211729 A new study now supports this idea, which Dudley calls the “drunken monkey” hypothesis. The study was led by primatologist Christina Campbell of California State … Read more
