Wild chimpanzees across multiple African field sites regularly consume ethanol through ripe and fermented fruit, absorbing enough alcohol to register in their urine and potentially shedding light on ...

Last year, Maro and his colleagues estimated wild chimpanzees’ alcohol intake based on the amount of fermented fruit they eat ...

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are native to the forests and savannas of central and western Africa. These creatures are our closest living relatives and share approximately 98.8% of our DNA. Similar ...

Scientists found that chimpanzees consume alcohol from naturally fermented fruit, offering new clues about animal diets and ...

Male chimpanzees at the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire are shown eating. A new study finds chimpanzees at this site have a predilection for fruits high in alcohol content. Photograph By Aleksey ...

Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins.

Chimpanzees would fail a breathalyser test because they consume fruit containing alcohol, a study has found. Researchers discovered that the fruits that chimpanzees eat in the wild contain sufficient ...

Learn how urine tests revealed that wild chimpanzees metabolize alcohol from naturally fermented fruit, and what that could mean for human evolution.

April 22 (UPI) --A team of British researchers studying chimpanzees in West Africa said they have documented the primates eating and sharing alcoholic fruit. The University of Exeter team said cameras ...

Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner A young chimpanzee looks on during an outing ...