"Radium" writes:

I notice that many fruit emit foul odors when ripe. What chemicals are
responisble for this?

There was an article in Natural History, I think, in the last year or so
on the evolutionary role of rotting fruit in human development. They
presented the so-called drunken monkey theory and mentioned that some
of the rotting fruit contains alcohol and the monkeys are attracted to
it. Check it out.
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Ignorantly,
Allan Adler
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