Wild chimpanzees have been pictured eating and sharing fruit containing alcohol for the first time. Researchers set up ...

New data suggests that the human inclination toward feasting in groups is part of our deep evolutionary history.

But we’re not the only ones. For the first time, wild chimps have been recorded indulging in alcohol together. (Just swap out the bottle of wine for a volleyball-size fermented breadfruit.) ...

And in 90 percent of the instances where food was shared, that fruit contained ethanol, suggesting the chimps might be picking up on visual cues to choose and share the boozy bites. Food sharing is ...

Since alcohol can sometimes reduce stress levels, the fruit may be encouraging social behavior in the chimps, according to a recent study Anna Bowland/Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project/University of ...

Wild chimpanzees were filmed sharing fermented fruit containing alcohol in a first-of-its-kind video, researchers said. Anna Bowland / Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project / University of Exeter In what ...

“Here, we document for the first time the repeated ingestion and sharing of naturally fermented African breadfruit with confirmed ethanol by wild chimpanzees,” the researchers write, adding ...

Wild chimpanzees have been pictured eating and sharing alcohol-infused fruit for the first time, which researchers say raises questions around whether the animals actively seek out alcohol.