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Alcoholic Vervet Monkeys! - Weird Nature - BBC animals

BBC Studios · 10.6M views · 2009-01-26 · 3:21

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Overview

A BBC Weird Nature clip about vervet monkeys in the Caribbean that drink alcohol, and how they split into heavy drinkers, social drinkers and teetotalers.

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HN shares it as an amusing parallel to human drinking habits and as a possible window into addiction.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2014–2021

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Animals & nature
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chvid · 2014-09 · Strong recommendation

On a side note; the distribution of alcohol habits in humans matches that of monkeys showing that our liking of alcohol is determined mostly by our genes. For more insight into this, watch this video from BBC Worldwide: [VIDEO] Which may also the best 3-minute video on youtube ever.

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zappo2938 · 2021-02 · Recommendation

This video about our primate cousins, the alcoholic vervet monkeys in St. Kitts, might give some insight into addiction. [0] [0] [VIDEO]

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hmsln · 2017-02 · Reference

Actually, some monkeys develop alcohol dependence in the wild (they get their alcohol from ripe fermenting fruits). Source: [LINK] Here's also an extract from a BBC Nature documentary: [VIDEO] Apparently, the monkeys are divided among heavy drinkers, occasional drinkers or teetootalers in proportions that are roughly equal to those among human beings.

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