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\nOne of the very nice things about fruit is that it will often ferment all on its own. And a few animal species take advantage of this, deliberately seeking out fermented fruit with the objective of painting the jungle red and waking up in the natural equivalent of a ditch at the side of the road. This works well if you happen to be fairly safe from predators, but not many animals have this luxury.\n<\/p>\n
Fruit and nectar eating bats certainly don’t fall under the heading of “immune from predation,” so researchers wondered<\/a> what happened to fruit bats that ate from the fermented fruit. Considering body weight and the amount of energy required to keep a fruit bat going, the researchers figured that even the low alcohol content of fruit should still be enough to mean that a night’s feeding involved a substantial amount of imbibing.\n<\/p>\n
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