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Alcoholic Vervet Monkeys! - Weird Nature - BBC animals
A BBC Weird Nature clip about vervet monkeys in the Caribbean that drink alcohol, and how they split into heavy drinkers, social drinkers and teetotalers.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN shares it as an amusing parallel to human drinking habits and as a possible window into addiction.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- BBC Studios
- Topic
- animal alcohol consumption
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2021
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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On a side note; the distribution of alcohol habits in humans matches that of monkeys showing that our liking of alcohol is determined mostly by our genes. For more insight into this, watch this video from BBC Worldwide: [VIDEO] Which may also the best 3-minute …
chvid on Hacker News · 2014-09
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zappo2938 on Hacker News · 2021-02
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