boozy fruit
Wild chimpanzees consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day in the form of boozy fruit, research finds
Submitted 1 month ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chimpanzees-alcohol-cocktails-fruit-research/
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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.