The monkeys at Budapest Zoo must be some of the happiest in captivity! Their feeding times are enlivened with a quantity of red wine each day; although there have been no instances of drunken brawls or other lewd behaviour.
They are fed 55 liters of red wine each year as a health measure to boost their red blood cell count. It is mixed in with their tea, so as not to be served in one hit. Sadly for the chimps, the wine is not of any great quality, just "simple table wine" according to the report.
So images of fine Bordeaux or Burgundy being sloshed around a chimps tea party are rather far from the truth. Budapest Zoo, incidently, was founded in 1866 making it is one of the oldest zoos in the world.
