The article entitled "What You Can Learn From Drunk Monkeys" by Meredith Small (2002:48-51) suggests that monkeys and humans may have a lot more in common than you might expect when it comes to alcohol and its addictive properties. For the last 15 years, a psychologist named Dee Higley has been raising rhesus monkeys in hopes to find possible causes for chronic alcohol abuse. These causes of alcoholism may be similar to those of humans. There …showed first 75 words of 812 total…

…showed last 75 words of 812 total…abuse . I think that our child hood (good or bad) plays a big role on how much we drink. It was weird to read that the monkeys drinking also, depended on how it was raised. I really enjoyed reading this article, and I found it to be very informative. References Cited: Small, F. Meredith What You Can Learn From Drunk Monkeys. In Annual Editions: Physical Anthroplogy 05/06, Elivo Angeloni (ed.). Pp. 48-51, Dushkin, Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw-Hill.