So you like a drink? Sometimes you drink probably more than is good for you, and certainly more than government guidelines allow.
Insidious guilt, the stick with which the government beats us.
But now, here is the good news. We're not the only animals that enjoy a bit of a piss up.
The pen-tailed tree shrew of West Malaysia drinks the nectar from Bertam palms, which has an alcohol content similar to beer, each night downing the shrew equivalent, weight for weight, of nine glasses of wine. Scientists studying the mammals describe them as 'chronic drinkers'.
And they're not the only ones, hardly surprisingly given its general wasted state, the slow loris enjoys nipping doen to the Bertam Palm for a few bevies with his mates the common tree shrew and the plantain squirrel.
Baboons get sqiffy on the fruit from the African Marula tree, which ferments quickly after being picked and eaten.
Water buffalo in Asia enjoy a fix in the opium poppy fields whilst cattle and horses in the American mid-west are known to suffer the effects of eating 'locoweed' which include impaired vision, stumbling, imbalance and exagerrated movement. Even those stalwarts of polite avian society, the robins, can get so pissed eating fermented grapes on the vine that they fall off their perches.

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