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Robert Dudley's Article About Drunken Monkeys
My article was about drunken monkeys. Robert Dudley who is a biologist was wondering what caused fruit-eating animals to be attracted to alcohol because he had an alcoholic father. He was working in the Panamanian forest and saw monkeys eating ripe fruit, which contained small amounts of alcohol. He wanted to study the evolution of humans and monkeys attraction to alcohol and fruit. Robert found out that there was a microscopic fungi, called yeast, that turned the naturally occurring sugar in fruit into a chemical known as ethanol, which most people know as alcohol. These fruit-eating animals began to use the scent of (ethanol) alcohol to find ripe fruit. There is a benefit to the alcohol in the fruit. One of the benefits is it protects the

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