Alcohol can't tame shrew's thirst for nectar.(Main)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | August 2, 2008 | Copyright

The equivalent of nine glasses of wine a night is just dinner to the pen-tailed tree shrew, a small Malaysian mammal resistant to the effects of chronic drinking, researchers reported Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The shrew's drink of choice is bertam palm nectar, naturally fermented to have an alcohol content up to 3.8 percent - just a few tenths of a percent shy of Guinness Draught beer. Study leader Frank Wiens, an animal physiologist at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, said that the shrews have evolved a complex ...

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