Chimps really are "drunken monkeys" - and actively seek out alcohol in their native habitat, suggests new research. Urine testing confirmed alcohol consumption among wild African chimpanzees with 17 ...

A chimpanzee eating figs at Ngogo in Uganda's Kibale National Park in 2018. (Aleksey Maro/UC Berkeley) (CN) — By eating fermented fruit, wild chimpanzees may be regularly consuming the equivalent of ...

New in JNeurosci, Mary Schneider and Alexander Converse, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led an interdisciplinary study to explore how prenatal alcohol and stress exposure affect rhesus ...

A tourist was caught giving alcohol to wild monkeys in China. Footage shows the man holding a local spirit called Baijiu, letting the macaque chug the liquor at Qianling Mountain Park in Guiyang, ...

Maro also analyzed the alcohol content of the star apple the chimps were gorging on, thanks to a bumper crop available. Based on undamaged fruits collected under the trees, the star apples contained ...