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Tools to tipple: ethanol ingestion by wild chimpanzees using leaf-sponges
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African apes and humans share a genetic mutation that enables them to effectively metabolize ethanol. However, voluntary ethanol consumption in this evolutionary radiation is documented only in modern humans. Here, we report evidence of the long-term and recurrent ingestion of ethanol from the raffia palm (Raphia hookeri, Arecaceae) by wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Bossou in Guinea, West Africa, from 1995 to 2012. Chimpanzees at Bossou ingest this alcoholic beverage, often in la...
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- Royal Society
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- Royal Society Open Science More from this journal
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- 2
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- 6
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- Article number: 150150
- Publication date:
- 2015-06-01
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2054-5703
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- 2015
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- © 2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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