Ayurvedic herbs are used to prevent anxiety, osteoarthritis, low testosterone, and high cholesterol, among other conditions. In general, Ayurvedic medicine aims to prevent illness—rather than respond ...

The findings lend support to the "drunken monkey hypothesis", which posits that the attraction to fermented fruit provided evolutionary ... we know that drinking alcohol leads to a release of ...

Nevertheless, “we suspect that this isn’t a rare occurrence and that actually the sharing of fruit that have a level of alcohol is probably relatively widespread,” Anna Bowland, lead author ...

Since alcohol can sometimes reduce stress levels, the fruit may be encouraging social behavior in the chimps, according to a recent study Anna Bowland/Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project/University of ...

Just as people drink alcohol to bond, wild chimpanzees have been captured on camera sharing naturally fermented fruit containing alcohol in the wild for the first time. Researchers from Exeter ...

Wild chimpanzees were filmed sharing fermented fruit containing alcohol in a first-of-its-kind video, researchers said. Anna Bowland / Cantanhez Chimpanzee Project / University of Exeter In what ...