A scientific reality to say the least surprising. As a study published in The Atlantic and spotted by Slate reports, hamsters have significantly better alcohol-getting abilities than humans. Before winter, these small rodents accumulate in their burrows large stocks of fruit which, after fermenting throughout the season, become soaked in alcohol.
According to the authors of the study, hamsters are able to consume about 18 grams of alcohol per kilogram of body weight daily, or the equivalent of one and a half liters of Everclear, a rectified alcohol from corn at 95 ° vs. They also point out that if one amount of water and one amount of alcohol is made available to hamsters, these animals will largely turn to alcohol.
A scientific reality to say the least surprising. As a study published in The Atlantic and spotted by Slate reports, hamsters have significantly better alcohol-getting abilities than humans. Before winter, these small rodents accumulate in their burrows large stocks of fruit which, after fermenting throughout the season, become soaked in alcohol.
According to the authors of the study, hamsters are able to consume about 18 grams of alcohol per kilogram of body weight daily, or the equivalent of one and a half liters of Everclear, a rectified alcohol from corn at 95 ° vs. They also point out that if one amount of water and one amount of alcohol is made available to hamsters, these animals will largely turn to alcohol.
When tested to study their signs of wobbling after ingestion of alcohol, scientists found that, despite ingesting untold amounts of liquids of alcohol, hamsters never exceeded 0.5 on the average on the scale of oscillation, which went up to 4. A reality very different from that of humans.
