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Hummingbirds, for example, drink between 50% and 150% of their body weight in nectar each day.

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As bees and hummingbirds move from one flower to another, feeding on nectar while helping plants reproduce, they are also consuming something unexpected: small amounts of alcohol.

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Despite this regular intake, bees and birds consume the alcohol gradually throughout the day and do not show clear signs of intoxication.

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Even so, nectar contains other compounds, such as nicotine and caffeine, that are known to influence animal behavior.

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Maro, Corl and Dudley reported their findings March 25 in Royal Society Open Science, along with Berkeley colleagues Rauri Bowie and Jimmy McGuire, both professors of integrative biology and curators at the campus's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.

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