Wild Chimps Consume The Equivalent of a Beer a Day, Study Finds
Chimps glug down 14 grams of ethanol in the roughly 10 pounds of fruit they feast on per day, adding up to an equivalent of two drinks for a human, according to the paper published Wednesday in Science Advances by researchers from the University of California, Berkeley.
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