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After University of California, Berkeley graduate student Aleksey Maro and integrative biologist Robert Dudley discovered that the boozy fruits chimpanzees eat is the equivalent of two standard ...

A urinalysis shows that these apes ingest significant amounts of alcohol, providing new clues to how alcohol influences the animals’ behavior ...

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