These hornets may be the alcohol-detox champs of the animal world

Don’t get into a drinking contest with Vespa orientalis hornets. They could out-booze a tree shrew, even a fruit fly. Mere humans wouldn’t stand a chance.

These hornets can survive weeks of binging on sugared liquid that’s 80 percent ethanol, researchers report October 21 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“To the best of our knowledge, no other animal has shown such resistance to ethanol under chronic consumption conditions,” says zoologist Eran Levin of Tel Aviv University.

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