{"id":6512,"date":"2010-09-13T03:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6512"},"modified":"2010-09-13T03:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T08:00:57","slug":"monken-drunkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6512","title":{"rendered":"Monken Drunkeys!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quantumbiologist.wordpress.com\/2010\/09\/11\/drunken-monkeys\/\">Drunken Monkeys!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nutritionally speaking, alcohol is a double-edged sword: it\u2019s extremely energy-rich, but it\u2019s also toxic and makes you fall down. So it makes sense that animals which eat fruit would develop a tolerance to alcohol, gaining its energy while avoiding getting so drunk that they start hitting on their predators at the bar. (Or, if you\u2019re a fruit bat, flying into a tree.) And the tolerance these animals have for liquor would put the most gin-blossomed tippler to shame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drunken Monkeys! Nutritionally speaking, alcohol is a double-edged sword: it\u2019s extremely energy-rich, but it\u2019s also toxic and makes you fall down. So it makes sense that animals which eat fruit would develop a tolerance to alcohol, gaining its energy while &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6512\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}