Animal Intelligence

After yesterday’s story about drunken elephants, an Animal Intelligence reader pointed me to this video clip from the 1974 documentary Animals Are Beautiful People. In this scene, a variety of animals get a little tipsy from consuming fermented marula fruit.

According to the Wikipedia entry on this film, some critics believe this scene was staged. It’s possible, I suppose, but I believe it’s equally likely that these creatures like their marula fruit!

(By the way, I thought the film’s style looked familiar. Sure enough: writer/director Jamie Uys also created The Gods Must Be Crazy, a film of which I have fond memories.)