A raccoon has gotten as drunk as a skunk.

A new study found that animals are eating fruit containing ethanol, a chemical used to make alcohol, more often than previously thought. Photo by Daniel Restrepo Londono via Unsplash Humans are no longer “drinking alone,” a new study finds. Animals are ...

Wildlife behaving like drunk humans after eating fermented fruits is generally considered anecdotal rare, and is not well documented in academic literature. However, one group of ecologists is challenging the assumption that animals don’t eat ethanol ...