Scientists learned that wild African chimpanzees consume alcohol by eating fermented fruit, suggesting that human attraction to alcohol may have ancient evolutionary origins.
We have recently read a lot about the remarkable life's work of the great chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall, who passed away on 1 October 2025. We learned that the Kenyan archaeologist and ...
Because chimps are humans' closest living relatives, Leakey hoped that understanding the animals would provide insights into early humans. In a predominantly male field, he also thought a woman would ...
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Chimps eating fermented fruit may hint at alcohol’s evolutionary roots
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 ...
They gave quartz, calcite and other types of crystals to chimpanzees in a rehabilitation center. The apes responded with great interest, and the researchers ended up needing to trade large amounts of ...
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