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Short clip from the nature documentary "Animals Are Beautiful People", watch what happens when animals get liquored up. This is the longer version of this video, complete with next-day hangover: http://www.videosift.com/video/How-do-Animals-get-drunk-Here-is-one-answer
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16555195
You can catalogue this video right beside the disney video of lemmings committing mass suicide.
The marula fruit is also eaten by various animals in Southern Africa. In the movie Animals Are Beautiful People by Jamie Uys, released in 1974, some scenes were shown where elephants, warthogs and monkeys got drunk from eating fermented marula fruit. Later research showed that these scenes were improbable and, in all probability, staged. Elephants would need a huge amount of fermented marulas to have any effect on them, and other animals prefer the ripe fruit. The amount of water drunk by elephants each day would also dilute the effect of the fruit to such an extent that they would not be affected by it.