Wild Chimpanzees Are Regularly Consuming Alcohol, and Their Urine Proves It New fieldwork from Uganda's Kibale National Park delivers the clearest physiological evidence yet for the "drunken monkey hypothesis" — and what it means for understanding human drinking

Wild chimps at Uganda’s Ngogo site tested positive for an alcohol metabolite in their urine — direct physiological proof they regularly consume ethanol from fermented fruit. What does that mean for the evolution of human drinking? #Primatology #HumanEvolution #DrunkMonkeyHypothesis