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Boozy tree shrews avoid fermented fruit hangovers

1 min
28 July 2008
New Scientist

We have distant cousins who regularly guzzle alcoholic floral nectar without regretting it the morning after.

Pen-tailed tree shrews, which are related to the ancestors of primates, eat giant flower clusters of the stemless bertam palm in the rainforests of Malaysia.

Sugars in the palm's floral nectar ferment in the warm, moist environment, producing alcohol in concentrations up to a beer-like 3.8% with a mean concentration of about 0.6%.

As the nectar is an essential part of the shrews' diet, their taste for alcohol may help us understand the evolutionary forces that drive humans to drink, argues Frank Wiens of the University of Bayreuth, Germany, who carried out the study.

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