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Gibraltar’s monkeys eat dirt to purge the junk food tourists give them

Macaques ingest clumps of clay to help their digestive system process the sugars, fats, and dairy products from human snacks ...

Monkeys 'learn to eat soil to cope with junk food'

Soil helps monkeys' stomachs settle after calorie-rich snacks from tourists, research suggests.

Scientists Figured Out Why These Monkeys Eat Dirt. The Key Is Tourists

People’s love of furry animals is having some unexpected effects on the monkeys living in Gibraltar. A study out today shows ...

Monkeys eating soil to soothe stomachs after taking too much junk food

Monkeys eating soil to soothe stomachs after consuming too much junk food - Barbary macaques are munching on junk food ...

Monkeys at Tourist Destination Ingest Mud to Combat Tummy Issues Caused By Eating Junk Food, Researchers Say

Researchers claim the monkey troops at the Rock of Gibraltar are "self-medicating" by rebalancing their gut microbiomes with ...
Scientific American

These monkeys are literally eating dirt to help digest human junk food

Gibraltar’s macaques have been observed engaging in geophagy, the consumption of soil and clay, in an apparent attempt to ...
ZME Science

Gibraltar’s Monkeys Are Eating Dirt to Cope With Junk Food

Gibraltar's macaques are eating soil to soothe stomachs upset by tourist-supplied junk food.
Smithsonian Magazine

Gibraltar’s Famous Monkeys Are Eating Dirt, Likely to Alleviate Stomach Aches From Munching on Tourists’ Junk Food

The British territory's Barbary macaques are the only wild monkeys in Europe. But many are consuming human snacks high in ...
The Print on MSN

Monkey see, monkey eat dirt—The social science behind primate ‘self-medication’

A Cambridge study reveals macaques are turning to 'geophagy' to settle digestive issues caused by junk foods.

Monkeys learn to swallow soil so they can keep eating junk food – research

Monkeys living on Gibraltar have learned that swallowing soil can quell upset stomachs caused by eating sweet and salty ...

Monkeys find way to keep eating junk food without the upset stomach

Monkeys in Gibraltar find way to keep eating tourist junk food without the upset stomach - Researchers think the behaviour is likely to have been learned socially ...