Animal of the week|Herhiläinen broke the alcohol tolerance record.
Man is not the only animalwho is fond of alcohol. Many animals consume ethanol even as part of their daily diet, so that the risk limits explode.
Even though tilhi is known to pop fermented berries. However, it has such a steely liver that it does not get drunk from them.
But now the undisputed king of the animal world has been found, a gold medal level runner. Not a bar fly, but would this be a wasp.
In the Pnas science journal in a published study, people from Herhi were given up to 80% alcohol for a week, and they were not affected at all. The researchers came up with everything to try!
Research the target was a hornet called Vespa orientalis.
There is no Finnish name, but the lentiinäinen lives in the wild in an area stretching from Africa to India. Let’s call him, for example, an Eastern heron.
The natural diet of these beetles consists of nectar and fermented fruits, which can produce a lot of ethanol.
The researchers put the hornets on a course consisting of a highly alcoholic sugar broth. The wine-strength broth didn’t have any effect, so the researchers turned the knobs to the southeast and ended up practically killing the bugs.
It didn’t have any effect on the behavior or even the health of the Herhían, even though the critters only got 80 percent booze for a week. The herons disciplined by a harsh course of alcohol lived as long as their sober counterparts.
Reasons there are at least two. Herhi people have several copies of a gene that helps break down alcohol.
Baker’s yeast also lives in symbiosis in their stomachs Saccharomyces cerevisiaewith which humans also make beer. In a way, Herhiläinen always has its own brewery.
Thus, the Herhilian has as tough competition fitness as some rock stars. Some of them, at least based on the stories, are practically immune to the effects of various substances.