chimpanzee drinking parties

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:43 pm

Are a thing. A thing you might not be alive without.

The all-too-human behaviour adds weight to the “drunken monkey hypothesis”, which states that natural selection favoured primates with a taste for alcohol, because it stimulated the appetite, helped them hunt for fruit and so boosted calorific intake.

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 1:57 pm

I think that's a stretch.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:03 pm

There's also the theory that communal drinking parties facilitated diplomatic relations way, way back during early human civilization.