Human beings aren't the only species on earth that can actually be in your A.A. meetings. The vervet monkey, originally from West Africa traveled over to the Caribbean's some three hundred odd years ago due to slave trade. These monkeys started to develop a trait that we only thought humans can acquire, the taste for alcohol. They began to become addicted after experimenting with fermented sugar canes that the slaves would use for the manufacturing of rum. Over the years the monkeys began to get a taste for alcohol. Some vervet monkeys don't like the taste of alcohol, some only drink a little, and some drink until they pass out. Five percent of vervet monkeys drink until intoxication while 12% drink as some would say "socially". These statistics resemble those of humans and show that these monkeys have a taste for the liquor just as humans do. There are monkeys that go back every day for more alcohol. This study shows that these monkeys have a genetic addiction just as an alcoholic human would have. So the next time you see a vervet monkey, sit down and have a cold one with him.
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