Chimps Drinking a Lager a Day in Ripe Fruit, Study Finds

Wild chimpanzees have been found to consume the equivalent of a bottle of lager’s alcohol a day from eating ripened fruit, scientists say. BBC: They say this is evidence humans may have got our taste for alcohol from common primate ancestors who relied on fermented fruit — a source of sugar and alcohol — for food. “Human attraction to alcohol probably arose from this dietary heritage of our common ancestor with chimpanzees,” said study researcher Aleksey Maro of the…