Doctoral student Aleksey Maro and his adviser Professor Robert Dudley, from the University of California, Berkeley, documented last year that the fruits chimps eat in the wild contain enough alcohol ...

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

Chimpanzees could be consuming the equivalent of a beer and half a day from eating alcoholic fruits, according to the first estimates of wild chimp alcohol intake. By virtue of their fruit-filled ...

For 25 years, UC Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley has been intrigued by humans' love of alcohol. In 2014, he wrote a book proposing that our attraction to booze arose millions of years ago, when our ...

Chimps' ability to metabolize fermented fruit could explain our own predilection for alcohol. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.