The video below shows alcoholic monkeys on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean.
They were brought there from West Africa 300 years ago by slave traders back when the island was a rum-producing colony, and apparently they developed a taste for alcohol from eating fermented sugarcane left in the fields. Nowadays, they satisfy their liquor habit by stealing drinks from tourists.
What's interesting is that by studying these alcoholic monkeys, we can get some insight into human alcohol problems.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/200...t-kitts-caribbean.php?campaign=TH_sbr_popular
They were brought there from West Africa 300 years ago by slave traders back when the island was a rum-producing colony, and apparently they developed a taste for alcohol from eating fermented sugarcane left in the fields. Nowadays, they satisfy their liquor habit by stealing drinks from tourists.
What's interesting is that by studying these alcoholic monkeys, we can get some insight into human alcohol problems.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/200...t-kitts-caribbean.php?campaign=TH_sbr_popular
