Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are native to the forests and savannas of central and western Africa. These creatures are our closest living relatives and share approximately 98.8% of our DNA. Similar ...

A research team led by the University of Exeter set up cameras in Guinea-Bissau's Cantanhez National Park. Footage of chimps sharing fermented African breadfruit—confirmed to contain ethanol (alcohol) ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found chimpanzees eating fermented fruit in their native habitats consume the equivalent of nearly two alcoholic drinks per day.

The first-ever measurements of the ethanol content of fruits available to chimpanzees in their native African habitat show that the animals could easily consume the equivalent of more than two ...

We share more than 97% of our genetic makeup with primates such as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. But that doesn’t mean our diets are anything alike. Here’s why. Our closest genetic relative is ...

Chimpanzees could be consuming the equivalent of a beer and half a day from eating alcoholic fruits, according to the first estimates of wild chimp alcohol intake. By virtue of their fruit-filled ...

Is there anything more human than gathering in groups to share food and partake in a fermented beverage or two (or three, or….)? Researchers have caught wild chimpanzees on camera engaging in what ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google Monkey see, monkey booze. Wild chimpanzees in the forests of Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire consume roughly two boozy ...

A chimpanzee eating figs at Ngogo in Uganda's Kibale National Park in 2018. UC Berkeley biologists measured the ethanol content of many types of fruit that chimps routinely consume and found that they ...