Meet the cutest little hard-drinking party animals you'll ever see - CNET

But unlike human drinkers, the critters didn't get tipsy. "No signs of inebriation were observed," wrote study co-author Samuel Gochman, a biology student at Dartmouth College.

And apparently they never leaed the "make sure you drink enough water" rule. While the slow loris sipped away on the drinks that mimicked fermented nectar, she shunned the control drink, good ol' H2O, displaying "a relative aversion to tap water."

You might, too, if you were a slow loris. Indonesia-based Slow Loris Rescue says the animals are so cute they're often illegally kept as pets, and traders go as far as to clip their teeth off to make them easier to handle. That sad state of affairs is enough to drive anybody to the hard stuff.