Pen-tailed Tree Shrew Likes the Sauce

Malaysia's pen-tailed tree shrew (above) regularly drinks fermented palm "beer,"
which in turn helps pollinate the palms' flowers, scientists reported in July 2008.

The pen-tailed tree shrew is the first non-human mammal known to display
alcoholic behavior. What's more, the rat-size animal never gets drunk during
its nonstop jungle jamborees.

Since the tiny mammal is related to primate ancestors, the find also suggests humans'
taste for alcohol may have begun well before the believed advent of brewing about
9,000 years ago.

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