Mastodawn

#News: Did you know wild #chimps consume the equivalent of two alcoholic drinks a day? 🍻🐵 #Research shows they get ethanol from eating fermenting fruit! This amazing fact is yet another reason why we must protect them! #Vegan 🌴🔥 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251130205418.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Wild chimps consume more alcohol than anyone expected

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This supports the idea that alcohol exposure is not a modern human invention but an ancient primate habit. The work strengthens the “drunken monkey” hypothesis and opens new questions about how animals use ethanol cues in their environment.

ScienceDaily

w May 22

If you’re interested in plants, butterflies - British wildlife generally in fact - and poetry, you may want to check out this blog. There are also posts about volunteering at an African chimp sanctuary and a trip to Canada.

A friend sent me the link. It’s a good read - even for someone like me who can’t tell one butterfly or bird from the next.

https://bugwomanlondon.com/2026/05/

#britishwildlife #butterflies #botany #poetry #chimps #canada #wildlife #insects #africa #britain #blog #shakespeare #ednastvincentmillay #plants #sorrel #pond #birds

May 2026 – Bug Woman – Adventures in London

10 posts published by Bug Woman during May 2026

Bug Woman - Adventures in London

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈May 12

I want to see a Chimp deal with the President's cognitive test, which I understand is just a question of remembering some symbols, and walk it.

#Trump #Chimps #Personhood

Palm Oil Detectives May 9

#News: Our brains are wired to hear #chimps! 🧐📢🎤🦍 #Research finds a part of #human #brains lightS up for #chimpanzee calls. We share communication roots with our cousins. Protect them! 🧬🗣️✨ #Evolution #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251209043042.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Barbara Niedner May 6

RE: https://mastodon.green/@mongabay/116528168447514976

Wir waren im Gashaka Nationalpark in der Forschungsstation 2025 🥰Mein Profilbild ist dort aufgenommen. ANI macht einen grandiosen Job. Ich konnte in Ruhe Primaten beobachten ohne das sie sich versteckten. Was fehlt sind Primatologen und Schimpansen Forschende! Durch ANI haben wir uns sehr sicher gefühlt. Kommt zurück!
#chimps #primates

PugJesus May 6

Monke Compass

Palm Oil Detectives Apr 24

#News: Did you know wild #chimps consume the equivalent of two alcoholic drinks a day? 🍻🐵 #Research shows they get ethanol from eating fermenting fruit! This amazing fact is yet another reason why we must protect them! #Vegan 🌴🔥 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251130205418.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Wild chimps consume more alcohol than anyone expected

Chimpanzees naturally ingest surprising amounts of alcohol from ripe, fermenting fruit. Careful measurements show that their typical fruit diet can equal one to two human drinks each day. This supports the idea that alcohol exposure is not a modern human invention but an ancient primate habit. The work strengthens the “drunken monkey” hypothesis and opens new questions about how animals use ethanol cues in their environment.

ScienceDaily

Knowledge Zone Apr 15

#CognitiveBias #CheatSheet : Medium

How #DNA in #Dirt is shaking up the #Study of #Human origins : Nature

Why these #Chimps have been at #War for 8 years : Nat Geo

Latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

Ian Kydd Miller Apr 11

https://bbc.com/news/articles/cr71lkzv49po

#news #chimps #Ngogo chimpanzees

Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in vicious 'civil war', say researchers

The once close-knit community of Ngogo chimpanzees have been at loggerheads for the last eight years.

joene 🏴Apr 10

Probably they are influenced by their Human cousins. /s Although they are much less lethal.

The Guardian: *Wild chimpanzees recorded waging ‘civil war’ with coordinated attacks between two groups*

"New study describes what may be the first case of a unified community of chimps, in Uganda, turning on itself"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/civil-war-chimpanzee-group-closer-to-human-condition-aoe

"On a June day in 2015, primatologist Aaron Sandel was quietly observing a small cluster of the Ngogo chimpanzee group in Uganda’s Kibale national park when he noticed something strange. As other members of the chimpanzees’ wider group moved closer through the forest, the chimpanzees in front of him began to display nervous behaviour. They grimaced and touched each other for reassurance, acting more like they were about to meet strangers than close companions.

In hindsight, Sandel said, that moment was the first sign of what would become a years-long bloody conflict between a once close-knit group of chimps. …"

More info on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngogo_Chimpanzee_War

#Chimps #Chimpanzees #Ugunda #CivilWar