In April 2024, animal control officers in Watertown, Connecticut, discovered two black vultures in bad shape. The befuddled ...

Despite stories of "wasps getting drunk" and "beetles consuming beer," it has been thought that alcohol consumption in the ...

It certainly lends some credibility to the so-called drunken monkey hypothesis: that humans' love of alcohol was inherited from primate ancestors choosing ethanol-laced fruit for its greater ...

Here’s how it works. If you spot fruit flies in your kitchen, chances are, there will be more the next day. That’s because fruit flies can actually lay up to 500 eggs, which hatch in as little ...

It isn’t just humans who like to drink alcohol, as a review of published evidence has found that animals also consume the ...

Researchers question the belief that animal alcohol consumption is accidental, suggesting many species habitually ingest ...

Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving “drunk” after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ...

研究人员认为，由于古老的进化过程，乙醇在生态系统中自然丰富，它提供了潜在的热量益处，甚至可能影响动物的行为和生理。野生动物可能不只是无意中摄入了发酵水果和花蜜中的乙醇，乙醇很可能是它们饮食的常规组成部分。一只蜘蛛猴正在采食 spondia mombin 的果实。 图片来源：Nicholas Chapoy野生动物吃了发酵水果后出现"醉酒"行为通常被认为是罕见和偶然的，但生态学家现在对这种观点提出了质 ...

Wild animals might not just accidentally consume ethanol from fermented fruits and nectar; it's likely a regular part of their diet. Researchers suggest that ethanol, naturally abundant in ecosystems ...

Primates and small mammals called treeshrews have adapted to efficiently metabolize ethanol particularly well. Spider monkeys ...