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Drunken Monkey' Hypothesis: These Spider Monkeys Eat Alcohol-Containing Fruits For Energy

The study was led by researchers at California State University, Northridge (CUSN), who collected fruit eaten and discarded by black-handed spider monkeys (Ateles geoffroyi) in Panama. The alcohol concentration in the fruit was typically between one to two per cent by volume, a by-product of natural fermentation by yeasts that eat sugar in ripening fruit, the researchers found.

https://news.abplive.com/science/drunken-monkey-hypothesis-these-spider-monkeys-eat-alcohol-containing-fruits-for-energy-university-of-california-berkeley-1524973

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