Party animals come in all shapes, sizes, and species, but one thing they have in common is that they enjoy getting into the alcoholic spirit. Granted, getting an elephant blackout drunk is probably out of the question because an elephant never forgets. But even these prodigious pachyderms pack a bit of drunk in the trunk. Psychologist Ronald Seiger tested elephants’ preferences for alcohol and found that they would gladly guzzle a beverage that’s 7 percent alcohol. After consuming 7 liters, the equivalent of 35 cans of beer, the lightweights among them began “growling” and rapidly flapping their ears. They swayed for hours, seemingly to prevent themselves from falling. Some intoxicated pachyderms downed as much as 75 liters of the alcohol solution, and one belligerent elephant chased the jeep containing the drink and attacked Seiger for refusing to supply more.

Honey bees also like a good buzz. Per the BBC, scientists them the solutions with sucrose and ethanol. The drunker they got, the less they flew, and the more they ended up on their backs. Researcher Dr. Julie Mustard observed that the bees “couldn’t coordinate their legs well enough to flip themselves back over again.” Drunk bees even fly upside down, according to Popular Science while inebriated fruit flies get super flirty or pass out, per the BBC. But what about the party poopers of the animal kingdom: mosquitoes? 

Mosquitoes suck at getting drunk

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