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Slavic Simians Sozzled

May 26, 2006 at 9:50 AM | by | Comments (3)


Is it just us, or do the Hungarians spend all their free time drinking? Even their monkeys are in on the act. The Budapest Zoo reports that their anthropoid apes, in particular, work their way through 55 liters of red wine a year. Zoo employee Zoltan Hanga said:

They get it in small amounts mixed in their tea. And it's not ... some expensive wine that they're getting, but simple table wine, as it's good for their blood cells.

What the other animals think about the luck that their monkey colleagues have is open to speculation. Perhaps the swallow-bellied woolly pigs (as they call them over there in Budapest) and bold-necked hens in the ancient Hungarian livestock display prefer specially preserved rum?

[Image via Nagy David/Flickr]

Related stories:
Wine Keeps Apes Feeling Fine [CNN]
Drunk Monkeys Mirror People [Discovery Channel]

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slavic not so much ;)

...hungarians aren't slavic, they're magyar. so you've actually got magyar simians there.
nycslav on May 26, 2006 at 11:14 AM #Permalink

Hungarians?

See, I was researching this one a little bit before I wrote the hed, and I am came away confused. Even though hungarians are technically magyars, because of the shifting borders, isn't at least some of the Hungarian population considered slavic? Or am I off base here? Mostly, I just wanted that hed.
AVB on May 30, 2006 at 7:56 AM #Permalink
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well...

there are slavic minorities in hungary, yes, but it's not the same :)
ethnic hungarians surely have some slavic blood thanks to generations of interbreeding, but the hungarian ethos is different.
nycslav on June 5, 2006 at 1:09 PM #Permalink
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