Thursday, September 2, 2010
Deer Beer
Right on the heels of drinkers living longer we bring you the beer loving deer at a resort in Weihai, China's Shandong province.
This female deer got her first sip of beer when a waitress at the resort was cleaning up after some customers last year.
The waitress, Zhang Xiangxi said: "I saw a bottle of beer was still half full so I playfully passed it to the deer. Unexpectedly it bit the bottle and raised its head and drank all the beer in one shot."
Now Zhang always passes leftover beer from her customers to the deer.
"It has a growing addiction to beer. To begin with, it was half a bottle, but now it is several big bottles in a row. Her daily feed is around two bottles of beer," said Zhang.
"I don't know what her maximum appetite for beers is, though we once tried giving her four bottles of beer and she drank them all."
The deer now refuses to drink water anymore, but it drinks wine if beer isn't available.
We know alcohol is suppose to make us live longer, but we doubt this animal will outlive much of anything at this rate.