QUIRKY WORLD ... Booze-loving apes may help explain why we love a tipple

GUINEA: Scientists have discovered a group of booze-loving apes who may hold the key to why humans enjoy drinking alcohol. 

Experts say they have found the first empirical evidence of “long-term and recurrent ingestion of ethanol” among apes in nature.

They observed wild chimpanzees in the town of Bossou in Guinea, west Africa, over 17 years and watched as the primates drank fermented palm sap using a leafy tool as a sponge.