Photos from open Sources Humanoid monkeys, apparently, at appropriate conditions tend to the same bad habits that and people. The results of a new study by international scientists prove it. More recently, we wrote that chimpanzees prefer healthy raw food thermally processed, but now it turned out that addiction to alcohol is not alien to these primates.
Professionals from America, UK, Japan and Portugal ten years watched a group of twenty-five chimpanzees living in the wild in Guinea. Local villagers get alcohol by fermenting palm juice. The fluid is recovered from trees and left outdoors in a plastic bowl. IN the result is a kind of palm wine with a fortress about seven revolutions. It turned out that after people left for chimpanzees periodically visit vessels with fermented juice. Primates are not able to lift heavy containers, because they bring homemade cups made of leaves.
A total of thirteen drinkers individuals, that is, more than half of the group. Every chimpanzee at a time drank about twenty cups. Monkeys almost always come across mash in which the alcohol content was still low – in based on light beer, animals consumed about a liter, therefore, their condition was almost not affected. But once chimpanzees got enough fermented palm wine, and primates drank about four liters in beer equivalent. Hopped animals began to walk aimlessly between trees, stumble, make strange cries and throw sand at each other.
It is noteworthy that after this incident, chimpanzees do not approached vessels with fermented juice for more than a week, however Then they renewed their drinking bouts. Having almost unlimited access with drink, monkeys, however, consumed it no more than once every four days. Experts believe that primates could not attract only alcohol, but also sucrose and various trace elements, contained in palm wine. We can say with confidence that alcohol abuse these animals is extremely rare.
By the way, in the video below you can see how the cub chimpanzee eagerly drinks beer and even begs for low alcohol a drink from one of their captors.
