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Monkeys eat soil to digest junk food from tourists
A monkey holding an ice cream or a bag of chips may sound like a cartoon scene. In Gibraltar, it is a common sight.
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Gibraltar’s monkeys are eating dirt to cope with junk food
On the limestone cliffs of Gibraltar, Europe’s free-ranging monkeys have developed a taste for the finer things in a ...
Macaques living near the Rock of Gibraltar eat a lot of tourists' food. A new study suggests the monkeys have learned to eat dirt to settle their stomachs.
Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a ...
Monkeys living on Gibraltar have learned that swallowing soil can quell upset stomachs caused by eating snacks offered or stolen from tourists, research suggests. Food such as chocolate bars, crisps ...
While humans settle their digestive unrest by popping pills and gulping down laxatives, do you know how animals deal with an upset stomach? Interestingly, in the wild every animal has a different way ...
Thirteen million years ago, a medium-sized monkey known for guarding its territory among the treetops with a fearsome "howl" started doing something new. This monkey, one of the oldest known ancestors ...
We've all been there. You eat a Big Mac or an ice cream cone, and your stomach disagrees with some of the choices you've made. The same can be true for animals. A new study finds one group of junk ...
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