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Wild chimpanzees devour the equal of two cocktails a day within the type of boozy fruit, analysis finds

Editorial Board Published September 17, 2025
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Within the forests of Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire, chimps crowd into fig and plum timber, feasting on fruit that’s candy, mushy and just a bit boozy. A brand new examine exhibits these each day snacks quietly add as much as the equal of almost two alcoholic drinks for people.

A crew of scientists at College of California Berkeley and different establishments examined the fruit chimps truly snack on: figs in Uganda’s cover and the plum-like fruits on the forest flooring in Côte d’Ivoire. Accumulating the information wasn’t simple — with little electrical energy past photo voltaic panels and fixed humidity threatening the devices, researchers spent three seasons hauling tools and calibrating check kits to measure alcohol in many alternative tropical fruits. 

Ultimately, they discovered that on common, the fruit’s alcohol content material got here in at about .3% by weight. That is kombucha-level, however when chimpanzees eat 10 kilos of fruit a day and weigh round 90 kilos, it provides as much as about 14 grams of ethanol, equating to about two cocktails for a human. 

However don’t image chimps swinging drunkenly from the timber. To really get drunk, they’d must binge on fruit till their bellies ballooned, the researchers mentioned. As an alternative, they’re uncovered to a gradual low dose, a quiet buzz from nature’s personal fermentation course of.

Researchers examined the fruit chimps snack on in Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire, discovering the alcohol content material is about .3% by weight.

Aleksey Maro/UC Berkeley

Senior creator of the paper and UC Berkeley professor of integrative biology Robert Dudley first floated the “drunken monkey” speculation in 2000, arguing that our attraction to alcohol may come from ancestral fruit-eating habits. Dudley argued that it is sensible primates can be tuned to alcohol, since their diets have lengthy revolved round ripe fruit. 

“Once you start eating, it acts as an aperitif,” he mentioned. “The pleasure of association with drinking alcohol increases feeding rates.”

Different animals chase the identical buzz too. 

“Open a bottle of beer outside and a fruit fly appears almost instantly,” Dudley mentioned. 

Spider monkeys in Panama, sluggish lorises in Malaysia and even elephants have been documented consuming naturally fermented fruit or nectar. 

What makes this examine completely different is that it gives the primary direct chemical measurements of ethanol within the fruits that wild chimps routinely eat, after which connects these numbers to each day consumption.

The open query is whether or not chimps are literally deciding on fruit for its alcohol content material or simply chasing sugar and energy. Both method, Dudley says the story connects to us. 

“We inherited the taste for alcohol,” Dudley mentioned. “Even though our diets have diversified … that bias to consume quickly when this molecule is present could still be a powerful force.”

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Wild chimpanzees in Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire devour the equal of about two alcoholic drinks a day from consuming fruit, new analysis finds.

Aleksey Maro/UC Berkeley

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