Do elephants get drunk on marula fruit, which ferments after falling from the marula tree?

No! Or, so say these researchers.

But:

“Elephants indisputably like booze, especially Asian elephants where we have many reports of them getting into rice-wine stores and drinking the stuff,” said lead author Steve Morris.

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Drunk elephants. Ha!