{"id":151282,"date":"2025-09-18T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151282\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:26:08","slug":"chimps-lager-a-day-in-ripe-fruit-fuels-drunken-monkey-theory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/151282\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimps &#8216;lager a day&#8217; in ripe fruit fuels drunken monkey theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The research adds weight to the so-called &#8220;drunken monkey&#8221; hypothesis &#8211; the idea that the human appetite for alcohol was inherited from our primate ancestors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This was first proposed by Prof Robert Dudley of the University of California, Berkeley, who is a co-researcher on the study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scientists were initially sceptical. But more observations of &#8220;scrumping apes&#8221; have emerged in recent years, said Prof Catherine Hobaiter, a primatologist at the University of St Andrews, who was not part of the research team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we&#8217;re realising from this work is that our relationship with alcohol goes deep back into evolutionary time, probably about 30 million years,&#8221; she told BBC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Maybe for chimpanzees, this is a great way to create social bonds, to hang out together on the forest floor, eating those fallen fruits.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The research adds weight to the so-called &#8220;drunken monkey&#8221; hypothesis &#8211; the idea that the human appetite for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-151282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}