And according to new research, this has nothing to do with human influence: Monkeys in the wild constantly get wasted on their own. “For the first time, we have been able to show, without a shadow of a doubt, that wild primates, with no human interference, consume fruit-containing ethanol,” said primatologist Christina Campbell of California State University, Northridge, in a press release. The study follows up on the work of University of California, Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley, who published “The Drunken Monkey Hypothesis” in 2000 and was involved in the recent experiment. The theory originally proposed that “patterns of alcohol use by humans in contemporary environments may thus reflect a maladaptive co-option of ancestral nutritional strategies.”
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