Scientists report that chimpanzees consume about 14 grams of alcohol daily and suggest the result might help explain humans' ...

Scientists estimate chimps’ alcohol consumption for the first time, and find they seem to prefer boozier fruit.

Chimps' ability to metabolize fermented fruit could explain our own predilection for alcohol. Chimpanzees could be consuming ...

A new study on chimpanzees in Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire supports a theory that humans may have inherited a taste for alcohol from primate ancestors.

Chimpanzees consume daily alcohol equivalent to two cocktails from ripe fruits, shedding light on human evolutionary ties to ...

While this might not seem like much, chimps eat so much fruit (around 10 percent of their body mass every day!), it ends up ...

Chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of about one alcoholic drink per day due to the ethanol contained within the fruit they eat, according to a new study.

A group of chimps have been filmed sharing alcoholic breadfruit, in the first example of wild primates having a booze-up on camera (well, sort of). Researchers got hold of the fruit they were eating ...

To get a buzz on, the researchers say a chimp would have to eat so much fruit its stomach would bloat. But chronic low-level exposure suggests that the common ancestors of humans and chimps - our ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ripe fruit is an integral part of the diet of wild chimpanzees, as they routinely eat an amount equaling about 10% of their body weight daily. And because this fruit often is ...

A new study seems to further the "drunken monkey" hypothesis that says chimpanzees are drawn to fermented fruits with alcohol ...

A chimpanzee eating figs at Ngogo in Uganda's Kibale National Park in 2018. (Aleksey Maro /UC Berkeley via SWNS) "When you adjust for body mass, because chimps weigh about 40 kilos versus a typical ...