|
|
|
|
National Tree Day Planet Ark Home
|
|
|
||
|
Budapest Zoo Apes Have Taste for Red Wine |
||
|
Mail this story to a friend | Printer friendly version
|
||
| HUNGARY: May 23, 2006 | ||
|
BUDAPEST - Monkeys and apes in Budapest's Zoo drink their way through 55 litres of red wine each year, albeit in small quantities each day, to help boost their red blood cells, the zoo said on Monday.
|
||
|
Budapest Zoo spokesman Zoltan Hanga said it was the 11 anthropoid apes who drank most of the wine in 2005. "Obviously, they do not have it all at once and get drunk, but they get it in small amounts mixed in their tea," Hanga said. "And it's not Eger Bulls Blood or some expensive wine that they are getting but simple table wine, as it's mainly good for their blood cells." Bulls Blood from the town of Eger in northeast Hungary, became one of eastern Europe's best-known wines under communism.
|
||
|
REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
|
||
|
||
|
Enter your keywords to search our news archive by subject. Type "Greenpeace", for example, into the box below and you will be given a listing of all Planet Ark's news and images relating to Greenpeace. |
||
|
|
||
|
Alternatively, why not check out our news archive on an issue by issue basis? Select a topic from the list below to learn everything you need to know about the topics contained within this search engine. |
||
|
|
||
|
