Two words: Drunk monkeys. A great band name, but more importantly, the topic of today’s Booze News!

A new study finds a whole new meaning behind “monkeying around.”

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley put science to the test and discovered that wild chimpanzees ingest approximately two alcoholic drinks daily. UC Berkeley graduate student Aleksey Maro said chimps consume ethanol daily from ripe fruits that have undergone natural fermentation, a process where sugars convert into alcohol.

“Across all sites, male and female chimpanzees are consuming about 14 grams of pure ethanol per day in their diet, which is the equivalent to one standard American drink. When you adjust for body mass, because chimps weigh about 40 kilos versus a typical human at 70 kilos, it goes up to

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