Aleksey Maro knows far more than he cares to know about the urination habits of chimpanzees. But if you want to measure the alcohol intake of chimps in a Ugandan rain forest, where a breathalyzer is ...

After University of California, Berkeley graduate student Aleksey Maro and integrative biologist Robert Dudley discovered ...

Learn how urine tests revealed that wild chimpanzees metabolize alcohol from naturally fermented fruit, and what that could mean for human evolution.

In nanograms per milliliter, these are coming in way above some of the clinically relevant and forensically relevant human ...

WILD chimps have a taste for alcohol and consume the equivalent of 2.5 drinks a day, shock new research has revealed. The discovery is the strongest evidence yet for a long-running theory on why ...

Doctoral student Aleksey Maro and his adviser Professor Robert Dudley, from the University of California, Berkeley, documented last year that the fruits chimps eat in the wild contain enough alcohol ...

Wild chimpanzees in the forests of Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire consume roughly two boozy beverages’ worth of overripe, fermented fruit a day, according to a new study. Chimps glug down 14 grams of ...

In the 1960s and 70s, a group of chimpanzees astonished the world by learning sign language. Only two remain and one question ...

The Mahale Mountains in western Tanzania is the least visited and most spectacular place to see wild chimpanzees. A ripple of jungle-covered peaks jutting out into Lake Tanganyika, it doesn't get the ...

Wild chimpanzees of the Taï National Park, Ivory Coast, hunt in groups to catch monkeys. By observing group-hunts and meat sharing, an international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute ...

A recent study performed on chimpanzees demonstrates that chimpanzees possess cognitive flexibility similar to that of humans. When circumstances or evidence change, chimps appear to do the thing ...