It's long been known that occasionally wild animals inadvertently get drunk from snacking on ferment fruits. Turns out though ...

Scientists have found that the organic compound ethanol — a naturally present yeast in many fruits and nectar that wildlife ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Evolutionary biologists report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct giant meat-eating bird -- which they say could be the largest known member of its kind -- providing new ...

If you've ever seen a bird flying haphazardly and wondered if it might be drunk, you might be right. In fact, more animals might be getting drunk than scientists previously thought. A new study ...

But the idea that animals avoid getting drunk is a hypothesis ... know if ethanol is producing a physiological response in the wild.” ...

These unique wild cats live on rocky hills or grasslands in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. These solitary animals are most active after sunset, when they hunt birds, rodents, rabbits ...

Even cases of drunk elephants have been observed. What motivates animals to consume a substance ... Indeed, researchers propose that ethanol consumption could offer several advantages for wild animals ...

However, animals' use for getting "drunk," so to speak, is much different than ours. "From an ecological perspective, it is not advantageous to be inebriated as you're climbing around in the trees ...