If you give a mouse a vodka tonic, will he even drink it?
That’s the question Ben Harrison — host of Let’s Drink About It — has brought to Completely Optional Knowledge. Ben enjoys a cocktail himself, and he wants to know if animals in the wild also rely on a little liquid courage to get them through. And who better to give us our answer than Dr. Robert Dudley, UC Berkeley biologist and author of “The Drunken Monkey,” a book about the history of primates’ relationship with alcohol.
As Ben and our host Andrew Norton discussed, this video of African animals “getting drunk” — as popular as it is — doesn’t really tell the story. Nor do these pandas (but they sure are fun to look at).
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Disclaimer: no wild animals were intoxicated in the making of this podcast, though the same cannot be said for human animals.
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