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

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

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 ...

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

Wild chimpanzees in the forests of Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire consume roughly two boozy beverages’ worth of overripe, fermented fruit a day, according to a new study. Chimps glug down 14 grams of ...

Doctoral student Aleksey Maro and his adviser Professor Robert Dudley, from the University of California, Berkeley, ...

Chimpanzees could be consuming the equivalent of a beer and half a day from eating alcoholic fruits, according to the first estimates of wild chimp alcohol intake. By virtue of their fruit-filled ...

Boozy chimps down the equivalent of two glasses of wine every day in their native habitat, according to new research. A survey of the ethanol content of fruits eaten by the primates suggests they are ...

Aleksey Maro knows far more than he cares to know about the urination habits of chimpanzees. But if you want to measure the alcohol intake of chimps in a Ugandan rain forest, where a breathalyzer is ...