Chimpanzees ingest more than the equivalent of one alcoholic drink a day – new research

By Stefano Kaburu, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Biology, Nottingham Trent University

Drinking more than you intended may be something that many humans do, but now research is showing that a taste for alcohol is surprisingly common among animals. In fact a new study has found that chimpanzees may ingest the equivalent of two alcoholic drinks a day from eating fermented fruit.

In the last ten years or so, there has been growing evidence that the ingestion of alcohol might be more widespread across the animal…

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