Matthew Kerrigan

There was like 90 percent of primatologists who thought fermented fruit was very rare. And then there's 10 percent, a handful of primatologists who thought it was so common to be uninteresting. And that was kind of like the divide.

There was like 90 percent of primatologists who thought fermented fruit was very rare. And then there's 10 percent, a handful of primatologists who thought it was so common to be uninteresting. And that was kind of like the divide.

And so it kind of flips the story in the head. Rather than being humans consuming alcohol to get drunk, perhaps it's the other way around, that animals are either intentionally or can't avoid consuming ethanol that they're going to be exposed to on a perhaps very routine basis.

And so it kind of flips the story in the head. Rather than being humans consuming alcohol to get drunk, perhaps it's the other way around, that animals are either intentionally or can't avoid consuming ethanol that they're going to be exposed to on a perhaps very routine basis.

There was like 90 percent of primatologists who thought fermented fruit was very rare. And then there's 10 percent, a handful of primatologists who thought it was so common to be uninteresting. And that was kind of like the divide.

And so it kind of flips the story in the head. Rather than being humans consuming alcohol to get drunk, perhaps it's the other way around, that animals are either intentionally or can't avoid consuming ethanol that they're going to be exposed to on a perhaps very routine basis.