Researchers found the jobo tree fruits – also used for millennia by humans to make the alcoholic drink chica – which spider monkeys sniffed and took a bite out of routinely had alcohol ...

Monkeys routinely consume fruit containing alcohol, shedding light on our own taste for booze Study supports 'drunken monkey' hypothesis: humans inherited love of alcohol from primate ancestors ...

The fruit the monkeys prefered to eat had an alcohol level similar to low-alcohol beers or cider, and they favoured the fruit of the jobo tree - common in their diet.

The fruit in question, taken from the jobo tree, have also been used by indigenous populations for thousands of years to make an alcoholic beverage called chicha.