Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe ROME, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A biologist at Italy's University of Bologna has written a book claiming animals indulge in many of the same vices as humans. Giorgio Celli said in his book, "I Sette Peccati Capitali degli Animali," which translates to "Animals' Seven Capital Vices," that animals frequently entertain impulses including lust, gluttony and greed, ANSA reported Friday. Advertisement Celli cites the lusty behavior of central Africa's bonobo chimpanzees as evidence of excessive sexual activity in the animal kingdom. The author's book says the chimps copulate several times a day and frequently engage in oral sex and homosexual relations that are not necessary to breeding. African elephants, meanwhile, entertain gluttonous impulses with the consumption of sugar-rich, fermented fruit that helps the usually steady giant mammals get a little tipsy. "The elephants don't consume this fruit because they need to but because they find it pleasurable," Celli said in his book. The author said his aim "is to trace the biological origins of morality."
