Natural ingestion of ethanol by animals: Why?

Liquid Bread: Beer and Brewing in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages 13-19

  McGrew, W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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