Chimpanzees filmed sharing alcoholic fruits for the first time

Mongabay
May 9, 2025, 6:06 am81 ptsTrending
Researchers have for the first time filmed wild chimpanzees feasting on alcoholic fruits together. It’s the “first evidence for ethanolic food sharing and feeding by wild nonhuman great apes,” they say in a new study. The research team, led by scientists at the University of Exeter, U.K., captured the…

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Chimpanzees filmed sharing alcoholic fruits for the first time

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