In a paper published today, scientists argue that plenty of animals are regularly consuming and using alcohol, though many questions about the practice still remain. Reading time 3 minutes Getting ...

Source: Julia Casorso, used with permission. Anecdotes from around the world describe wild animals—everything from wasps to songbirds to baboons—acting drunk after feeding on fermented fruits. But ...

First-of-its-kind measurements have revealed the ethanol content in the fruits consumed by chimpanzees in their natural African habitats. The University of California, Berkeley, team detailed the ...

(The Hill) — Alcohol — and animals who love to consume it — is far more common in the natural world than scientists once believed, a new study has found. Because ethanol — the kind of alcohol that ...

If a 175 pound-man drank five one-liter handles of vodka in a day, he would die. But when a tiny Oriental hornet weighing half a gram consumes the equivalent amount of alcohol relative to its body ...

Don’t get into a drinking contest with Vespa orientalis hornets. They could out-booze a tree shrew, even a fruit fly. Mere humans wouldn’t stand a chance. These hornets can survive weeks of binging on ...