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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Harriette Boucher

Chimps consume a pint of lager’s worth of alcohol every day in fruit, scientists find

Wild chimps could be consuming the equivalent of up to two standard alcoholic drinks every day thanks to a diet rich in fermented fruit. 

Scientists from the University of California studied freshly fallen fruit at native African chimpanzee sites in Ngogo, Uganda, and Taï, the Ivory Coast, to research their ethanol intake. 

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