Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I can see why we primates* would have a taste for alcohol: boozy = fermenting = full of sugars = nutritious. It works fine if all alcohol we see is “in the wild”. But once you learn to farm and ferment, everything goes downhill, because you’ll have a lot more alcohol available than just a bunch of overripe berries.

  So it’s a lot like a sedentary lifestyle, junk food, attention economy, etc. Our instincts working against us, because they were shaped by a different environment.

  *I’m not even sure if it’s something as recent as primates. Other tetrapods seem to really like booze too, as this rather cute video shows. Elephant, birds, hogs, everyone gets drunk.

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  boozy fruit

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  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That was my nickname in college!

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  • subignition@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    sued by wrigley's

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• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We gotta return to our roots

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Coming soon: “The Chimp Diet book.”

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