Boozy chimps down the equivalent of two glasses of wine every day in their native habitat, according to new research. A survey of the ethanol content of fruits eaten by the primates suggests they are ...

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 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 ...

To get a buzz on, the researchers say a chimp would have to eat so much fruit its stomach would bloat. But chronic low-level exposure suggests that the common ancestors of humans and chimps - our ...