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Recent feildqork in Malaysia with radio-collared Ptilocercus showed that wild flower buds of the birtem palm are available these tree shrews nightly consume large amounts of alcohol from the fermenting nectar while also pollinating the flowers. Despite having continuously high blood alcohol levels that would intoxicate humans, the tree shrews showed no signs of intoxication and are somehow able to tolerate such levels.
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