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Like people, animals like having a drink every now and again. Of course, they aren't sipping a glass of brandy or Chablis, they are feeding on fermented fruit, but the effects are the same. While alcohol is rich in sugars, being drunk presents a serious risk to wild animals and they avoid drinking to excess. Then there is the oriental hornet, a bug that loves fermented fruits and is so attracted to human-made alcoholic beverages that it will fight for them. Everyone has assumed that the rules for the hornet were the same as they are for every other species. Now new work is proving that notion wrong. They are immune to becoming drunk. Your can read more in The Economist article that I wrote on this here.