Even the most ardent
beer fans would have trouble subsisting on their favorite brew day in and out, but scientists have just discovered that the pentailed treeshrew lives off a frothy, fermented nectar that smells
like beer and has its same alcohol content
But are the treeshrews forever tipsy?
we do not rule out psychopharmacological effects induced by alcohol.
imbibers included the gray tree rat, the Malayan wood rat, the chestnut rat, the slow loris and the pentailed treeshrew
big-eyed treeshrews would have a 36 percent chance of being drunk, by human standards, on any given night
extremely high concentrations of a compound
the end product of a chemical process that gets rid of alcohol
In humans, only a negligible amount of the consumed alcohol is detoxified via this pathway
humans and most other modern primates either weren't exposed to it as much, or lost the beer-guzzling adaptations as the years went on
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