maro

[mahr-oh]

noun

1. a loincloth worn ceremonially by Maori and Tahitian men, consisting of a grass apron or a length of cloth wrapped around the waist and sometimes between the legs, traditionally made from flax fibers or tree bark.

Example Sentences

"Across all sites, male and female chimpanzees are consuming about 14 grams of pure ethanol per day in their diet, which is the equivalent to one standard American drink," said UC Berkeley graduate student Aleksey Maro of the Department of Integrative Biology.

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Maro analyzed 21 different fruit species eaten by chimps at two long-term research sites, Ngogo in Uganda and Taï in Ivory Coast.

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According to Maro, chimps feed on fruit throughout the day and do not appear visibly drunk.

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"Chimpanzees consume a similar amount of alcohol to what we might if we ate fermented food daily," Maro said.

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Maro is first author and Dudley is senior author of a peer-reviewed paper describing these findings that is published in the journal Science Advances.

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