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Chimps ‘lager a day’ in ripe fruit fuels drunken monkey theory

Chimps ‘lager a day’ in ripe fruit fuels drunken monkey theory

Elizabeth Dawson and Helen BriggsBBC climate and science team Aleksey Maro Understanding more about the diet of wild chimps could help explain human attraction to alcohol Wild chimpanzees have been found to consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager’s alcohol a day from eating ripened fruit, scientists say. They say this is evidence humans may have got our taste …

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