No. This isn’t another post about Canadian politics. Although, given that this is the last week before the election, it took all my strength not to write about it. Instead, just a quick quote from the blog Punctuated Equilibrium about alcoholic monkeys:

Researchers captured 1000 vervet monkeys from St. Kitts island, kept them in a social group and conducted research on their drinking habits. They found that the monkeys’ drinking behaviours were remarkably similar to humans’:

• Social drinkers: the majority of the monkeys. They prefer alcohol diluted in fruit juice, will only drink in the company of other monkeys, and not before lunch.
• Regular drinkers: fifteen percent of the monkeys prefer their alcohol “neat” or diluted in water, not sweetened or diluted with fruit juice. Interestingly, steady drinkers do very well in social groups, and are good leaders. They run troops well, they keep order well, and they’re very dominant. This type of alcoholic monkey is a very functional animal.
• Binge drinkers: five percent of the monkeys drink their alcohol fast, get in fights, and drink themselves into a coma. Just as in humans, there are more young males in this group. If this group has unrestricted access to alcohol, they will drink themselves to death within 2-3 months. Binge drinkers differ from regular (or “steady”) drinkers by their drinking patterns rather than by the amounts of alcohol they consume.
• Teetotaler: fifteen percent of the monkeys prefer little or no alcohol.

The post also has a video so you should check it out.