Chimpanzees share 98.8% of our DNA, making them the closest living relatives humans have. They use tools, form political alliances, communicate in complex ways, and pass knowledge between generations.

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 ...

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 ...

In “Better Man” — the new musical biopic of Robbie Williams — the British pop star gets in touch with his inner primate. Indeed, the 50-year-old singer — who rose from the boy band Take That to become ...

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 ...

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When I talk about my time in the field, and how wonderful and fascinating chimpanzees are, one thing that often surprises people is that chimps eat meat. Listeners are truly shocked—"Wait what?" they ...