Terrapin Tables

Drunken Fruit Flies

From the News section on Nature, here's an article on getting fruit flies drunk. I suppose there's some valid scientific reason for it, but I still thought it was funny, "the researchers placed the flies in a column containing several platforms. When they were exposed to ethanol vapour, the flies tended to lose their balance and fall off their platform to the next one down, until they finally landed with a drunken bump at the bottom of the column."