Drunk Fermented facts
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In Australia when it gets very hot, the nectar in some flowers ferments and turns into alcohol. The bees get "drunk" and are not allowed back into the hive
how does fermented fruit get you drunk?
An Australian bird, called the rainbow lorikeet, routinely gets drunk from spring to summer. The small birds drink the fermented crimson flower nectar from the Weeping Boer-bean tree. When intoxicated these birds make loud drunken noises which many people find bothersome.
What drunk driving is bad?
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what drunk driving causes?
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BuzzWinkle, a moose from Anchorage Alaska who frequently roamed the city drunk from eating fermented crab apples and more than once was found ripping down Christmas lights with his antlers or passed out in the street downtown
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A flock of birds in Austria got drunk off fermented berries and caused a freeway pile up by dive-bombing cars
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The Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew subsists on a diet roughly equivalent to 100% beer, drinking the fermented nectar of the flower buds of the bertam plant. This nectar can reach up to 3.8% alcohol content. Despite this, they don't appear to get drunk.
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Humans are not the only animal that likes to get drunk. Australian parrots have discovered that sugar spilt from cane trucks and wet by dew overnight can rapidly ferment in the Sun, providing free booze.
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A woman had her DUI dismissed after she presented a judge with evidence of her 'Auto-brewery syndrome'. A rare condition in which the gut ferments carbohydrates, producing the ethanol that gets them drunk.
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Alcohol forms in berries as they ferment with the first frosts, and the birds that gorge on these winter fruits may get drunk more often than we think, scientists say
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In 2016 a flock of birds got drunk off eating fermented berries and crashed into vehicles causing massive jams.
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When worker wasps fully supply their queen with nectar and "retire" for the summer, they spend the rest of their lives getting drunk off of fermented fruit and brazenly attacking humans.
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For a few years a moose, dubbed 'Buzzwinkle', would roam around Anchorage drunk on fermented apples
Why drink fermented drinks?
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The infamous Tarantula Hawk can get so drunk on fermented fruit that they struggle to fly
An elk 'drunk' on fermented apples helped clear a mans name of murder! - source
Auto-brewery syndrome, a rare syndrome caused by yeast overgrowth in your gut can turn your gut into a brewery, fermenting foods you eat into alcohol and making your drunk without drinking. - source
African Elephants & other wildlife drunk on fermented marula fruit is a myth which was popularised in the 1974 'documentary' "Animals Are Beautiful People". The animals in the movie were either shot with tranquillizer darts or fed food soaked in alcohol
Cedar Waxwings eat fermented berries and fly drunk. - source
When drunk driving was made illegal?
Cassowaries are angry drunks after they eat fermented bush fruit
Honeybees have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to drinking on the job and will attack any bee returning to the hive drunk on fermented sap.
Auto-brewery syndrome is a rare medical condition in which intoxicating quantities of alcohol are produced within the body. Claims of endogenous fermentation have been used as a defense against drunk driving charges. A man couldn't stay sober for 20 years because everything he ate became alcohol
Animals eat rotting fruit and get drunk off the fermentation in their stomachs.
There's a condition where yeast from foods like pizza can be fermented in one's gut and cause them to get drunk without alcohol. This is a rare condition known as "auto-brewery syndrome"
There exists a condition called gut fermentation syndrome where a yeast in your stomach turns carbohydrates into beer, causing one to get drunk off alcohol produced by one’s own body.