Can animals get drunk like humans? The answer is yes.

Zebra finches have reportedly been used as a model to study human vocal learning, and since alcohol affects human speech, Christopher Olson and his colleagues at Oregon Health and Science University, conducted a study to see if the same thing happened to birds, according to Nature World News.

“We just showed up in the morning and mixed a little bit of juice with six percent alcohol, and put it in their water bottles and put it in the cages,” Olson, the lead author of the study, told NPR.

He added, “At first we were thinking that they wouldn’t drink on their own because, you know, a lot of animals just won’t touch the stuff. But they seem to tolerate it pretty well and be somewhat willing to consume it.”

With the alcohol in their system, the birds reportedly began to sing and were found to be “a bit less organized in their sound production,” according to Olson.

The strongest effects of alcohol on the songs the birds were singing were reportedly on amplitude and entropy, according to PBS News. Different syllables were reportedly affected across songs and individual birds.

The study done on the drunk birds are reportedly expected to help with researching the speech and language patterns of humans.

“"This may help us to better understand how speech and language work, and also identify some possible genetic causes of speech and language impairments, a novel and exciting area of research that sounded very esoteric not too long ago," Dr. Claudio Mello, a professor of behavioral neuroscience at OHSU, who was not involved in this latest study, said in a statement.

Mello added, “The studies in birds will help us understand where and how these genes work in the brain, and thus devise better approaches to combat speech problems in humans."