Fine monkey wine

You can teach monkeys many things, but I doubt that making booze is among them. It’s something they need to discover on their own.

(By the way, who wants to bet how long it will be before a local scientist claims that the monkeys in China were doing this at least a thousand years before those in Borneo?)

(Originally posted on April 12, 2007, on www.beijingboyce.com)

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