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Humans have a bad reputation for overhunting some animals, but a new study suggests we’re not the only ones. Chimpanzees in Uganda have overhunted red colobus monkeys, causing their local population ...

But Dudley emphasized that the new study doesn’t fill all the gaps in his "drunken monkey" hypothesis. He added: “The final link here with the drunken monkey hypothesis remains to be shown: that the ...

Chimpanzees share 98.8% of our DNA, making them the closest living relatives humans have. They use tools, form political ...

Drinking more than you intended may be something that many humans do, but now research is showing that a taste for alcohol is surprisingly common among animals. In fact, a new study has found that ...

Alcohol can make you woozy and nauseous when you drink too much, but why do humans love it? Wild chimpanzees may hold the answer. Chimps could be eating enough fermented fruit each day and consuming ...

The first-ever measurements of the ethanol content of fruits available to chimpanzees in their native African habitat show that the animals could easily consume the equivalent of more than two ...