There are plenty of “pop-science” interpretations of the original publication mentioned in this video (including this video, I suppose!).
If you search for “scrumping chimpanzee” you will find those articles. For the original publication, click here.
I appreciate the authors’ (Nathaniel J Dominy, Luke D Fannin, Erin R Vogel, Martha M Robbins, and Catherine Hobaiter) fun with their section titles–instead of a Results section, they had Last Call and rather than a Discussion, they had Closing Time.
Happy Scrumping!
Oh no! Are you telling me they like to get drunk??!! :blush::blush:
That DOES sound like a fun one, Diana! 🙂
I know I can’t metabolize it like I used to. I barely drank until I was 28, and that was when I learned that I had a ridiculously high tolerance (as in five pint glasses of Long Island iced tea to get going and 7 to take me to the edge of not remembering things). My mother never drank and my father probably drank too much. I put it down to dad’s genetics passed on. Fast forward many years, and I live in a drinking town with a boating problem, but I made a point of not going out very often. And now I find that if I have more than one glass of wine, I get a hangover, whereas in the past, that never happened unless I drank brandy. :person_shrugging:?
I enjoyed watching a 60 minutes clip from 20 years ago or more. they did a study on the monkeys of St Kitts. Someone had brought them in, bred them, and they overran the island. Since there are a lot of tourists drinking fruity cocktails, the monkeys were attracted to the fruit juice and began stealing drinks. So they decided to do a study, and what they found is that the percentage of monkeys who do not drink at all, the percentage of monkeys who drink in moderation, and the percentage of monkeys that overimbibe roughly parallels the same percentages in humans. So there just may be something to that theory!
Squirrels will also get drunk if they overindulge in rotting fruit from an apple tree in your backyard. There are videos on YouTube that people have filmed, laughing at the squirrels trying to attempt the most minimal task under the influence of too much rotten fruit. I was told that horses can get drunk if they eat too many apples. I don’t know if that’s true. And I believe that in South America, certain tribes are aware of the effects of rotten fruit on birds, and use it to get them drunk and trap them for sale.
Science can be fun!
I always thought you were required to be drunk if you were operating a boat, so your town sounds like it knows what its doing.
I would go scrumping any day for cherries or strawberries in a melon bowl, preferably off my kitchen counter, not off the ground please.
I don’t know about the fermenting/ alcohol history, but could that be where the term ‘fruit cocktail’ came from.
Scrumping. I love that word! Looks like the gang is scrumping for scrumptious seasonal fruit and enjoying every minute of it. Cheers to gathering with friends for a little scrumping! BYOD*!
(Bring your own doll)
Will you now include overly ripe fruit in the chimps’ diets?
One thing they are missing is a little meat. I’m not sure a sanctuary can provide hunting opportunities. Though I remember reading some of them have eaten small rodents they’ve caught.
I believe the night bags contsin primate biscuits with some ankmal protein.
Primate chow has protein, I dont know the source. Negea ate a tree frog. Jody had a mouse in a hat, like a pet, but Annie whipped the hat across the room in fear. Katelyn told that story in a great blog post
Linda, oh wow! I didn’t know any of that. But then I’ve only been here 5 years. (I can’t believe it’s been 5 years!)
A story about Jody https://share.google/tfN4rvqGsGAZpNGxD
The chow they get as a dietary supplement does contain a small amount of animal protein. They have killed a few mice, but I’ve never seen any of the chimpanzees eat a mouse. The frog that Negra ate was an unusual event and I don’t think she was eating it as a food source, but more to make sure it would stop making noise (that’s my guess). The amount of meat that chimpanzees eat in the wild varies, but overall it’s less than 2% of their diet: https://www.insidekibaleforestnationalpark.com/chimpanzee-diet.html