Press interviews and media

Interview with Russian Central Television, aired March 28, 2026. English translation and subtitles done by me. See YouTube description for names and titles of all the guests.

Press interviews for Maro et al. (2026) Low-level ethanol is widespread within floral nectar

BBC World Service floral nectar interview, March 25, 2026

Interviewed by: Berkeley News, The Telegraph (UK), BBC World Service (see above), NPR Plus (coming soon)

Also featured in: Vice (USA),Metrópoles (Spanish), Tiisys.com (Japanese), ERR News (Estonian), Naked Science (Russian), Galileu (Portuguese), Unian (Ukranian), Sciences et Avenir (French), Merkur (German)

Press interviews for Maro et al. (2026) Urinary concentrations of a direct ethanol metabolite indicate substantial ingestion of fermenting fruit by chimpanzees

NPR March 3, 2026: Humans' pull toward alcohol may have ancient origins (according to chimp pee)
Ari Daniel / All Things Considered

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Interviewed by: National Public Radio (see above), Reuters (see above), The Times (London), DIE ZEIT (Germany), Scientific American , El País, As It Happens (Canadian radio), Channel 5 News Live (London), ITW French TV TF1, Le Figaro, NVT (Russian TV)

Also featured in: Smithsonian Magazine, Vice

The Wild Bits (podcast), Feb 22, 2026. I discuss my work in an hour-long interview.

Tiere im Rausch (Wild on a High), 2025 A documentary film series on natural inebriation, featuring my research assaying ethyl glucuronide in chimpanzee urine at Ngogo in Uganda, published in Biology Letters. The full episode will be available later in 2026. A 2-minute preview put together by the UC Berkeley press office is below.

Press interviews for Maro et al. (2025) Ethanol ingestion via frugivory in wild chimpanzees

BBC Newsweek radio interview, Sep 17, 2025
Quirks and Quarks with Bob McDonald, Sep 26, 2025, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Interviewed by: BBC Newsweek (see above), CNN (see above), NBC Bay area (see above), Quirks and Quarks (Canadian radio, see above), The Wall Street Journal, KCBS radio San Francisco, National Geographic, Swedish National Television (SVT), Live Science, The Daily Californian, BR24 radio Munich, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Nautilus, The i Paper, Radio Active radio Canada, The Times (UK), Le Point, Reuters, Le Parisien, New Scientist, Le Figaro, Der Spiegel, Popular Science, El País, SF Chronicle

Taste: The Flavor of Life, 2022 A documentary film series about evolution and the sense of taste, where I talk about my research with Robert Dudley in the second episode. Watch an excerpt on YouTube: