New York Post on MSN12d
Animals ‘likely’ get ‘drunk’ on a regular basis — and it may not be a bad thing, scientists say
Scientists have found that the organic compound ethanol — a naturally present yeast in many fruits and nectar that wildlife ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN1d
Animal color vision evolved 500 million years ago, before vibrant fruits, flowers
The findings show that while color vision in animals predates the appearance of colorful fruits by 150 million years and ...
Mental Floss on MSN6d
Animals Might Be Drinking More Than We Thought
In April 2024, animal control officers in Watertown, Connecticut, discovered two black vultures in bad shape. The befuddled ...
studyfinds on MSN13d
Lions and tigers and beers: Yes, even animals seek out alcohol in the wild
Our primate ancestors and many other animals may have been indulging in fermented fruits and saps full of ethanol for ...
Drunk animals far more common than previously thought, helping explain human love of alcohol
Alcohol — and animals that love to consume it — is far more common in the natural world than scientists once believed, a ...
Dagens News (US) on MSN7d
Scientists Find Alcohol Consumption Common Among Fruit-Eating Animals
For years, tales of animals intoxicated on fermented fruit were considered rare and humorous coincidences. However, a recent ...
ScienceAlert on MSN12d
Alcohol Consumption Is a Lot More Common in Animals Than We Knew
Animals that eat fruits will inevitably consume some that are a little past ripe, and a little more boozy – but for too long ...
Why are wild animals getting ‘drunk?’ Study finds it’s more common than thought
While researchers knew ethanol could naturally appear in fruits fed on by wild animals, they thought the phenomenon of drunk ...
Drunk animals far more common than previously thought, scientists say
Drinking alcohol may be far less of a human characteristic than previously thought, according to a new scientific paper ...
IFLScience on MSN12d
Animals Like Getting Drunk More Than We Realized, But We Don’t Know Why
Stories often circulate of all sorts of animals consuming fermenting fruits and getting somewhere between silly and blotto. It can make for amusing tales, although if the disputed stories of drunk ...
EurekAlert!13d
Alcohol consumption among non-human animals may not be as rare as previously thought, say ecologists
Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving “drunk” after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ...