Editing Alcohol intoxication (section)

==Other animals==
In the film ''[[Animals Are Beautiful People]]'', an entire section was dedicated to showing many different animals including monkeys, elephants, hogs, giraffes, and ostriches, eating over-ripe [[Sclerocarya birrea|marula]] tree fruit causing them to sway and lose their footing in a manner similar to human drunkenness.<ref>{{cite web|title=- YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-nSBPuRbsg|access-date=31 December 2022|via=YouTube}}</ref> Birds may become intoxicated with fermented berries and some die colliding with hard objects when flying under the influence.<ref>{{cite news |last=Katz |first=Brigit |date=4 October 2018 |title=Birds Are Acting Erratically in Minnesota. Blame It on the Alcohol |work=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/birds-are-acting-erratically-minnesota-blame-it-alcohol-180970468/ |access-date=5 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Kinde |first=Hailu |display-authors=et al |date=July 2012 |title=Strong circumstantial evidence for ethanol toxicosis in Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedrorum) |journal=Journal of Ornithology |volume=153 |issue=3 |pages=995–998 |doi=10.1007/s10336-012-0858-7 |bibcode=2012JOrni.153..995K |s2cid=15546534}}</ref>

In elephant warfare, practiced by the Greeks during the [[Maccabean revolt]] and by [[Hannibal]] during the [[Punic wars]], it has been recorded that the elephants would be given wine before the attack, and only then would they charge forward after being agitated by their driver.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lundin |first=Elizabeth |date=21 December 2021 |title=Hannibal's Superweapon: The War Elephant |url=https://historythings.com/hannibals-superweapon-the-war-elephant/ |access-date=31 December 2022 |website=History Things}}</ref>

It is a regular practice to give small amounts of beer to race horses in Ireland. Ruminant farm animals have natural fermentation occurring in their stomach, and adding alcoholic beverages in small amounts to their drink will generally do them no harm, and will not cause them to become drunk.

Alcoholic beverages are extremely harmful to dogs,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/vets-corner/is-alcohol-dangerous-for-dogs/|title=How Harmful Is Alcohol To Dogs? What To Do if Your Dog Drinks Alcohol|first1=Dr Jerry|last1=Klein|date=24 September 2019 |website=akc.org}}</ref> and often for reasons of additives such as [[xylitol]], an artificial sweetener in some mixers. Dogs can absorb ethyl alcohol in dangerous amounts through their skin as well as through drinking the liquid or consuming it in foods. Even fermenting bread dough can be dangerous to dogs.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Means |first1=Charlotte |title=Bread dough toxicosis in dogs |journal=Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care |date=28 February 2003 |volume=13 |pages=39–41 |doi=10.1046/j.1435-6935.2003.00068.x |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1435-6935.2003.00068.x |access-date=19 April 2024}}</ref> In 1999, one of the royal footmen for Britain's Queen [[Elizabeth II]] was demoted from [[Buckingham Palace]] due to his "party trick" of [[Mickey Finn (drugs)|spiking the meals and drinks]] of the [[Royal corgis|Queen's pet corgi dogs]] with alcohol which in turn would lead the dogs to run around drunk.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF80EB2A69CA15E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=News Lite|newspaper=[[Daily News of Los Angeles]] |date=23 July 1999|access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref>