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 ...

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 ...

Gibraltar macaques are self-medicating with dirt to help them digest human junk food

Not content with ruining their own appetite with junk food, tourists in Gibraltar may also be turning the stomachs of the ...
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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 ...
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Gibraltar's macaques eat soil to counter junk food effects

Researchers have found that Gibraltar’s Barbary macaques are eating soil, likely to ease digestive issues from consuming tourists’ sugary and salty snacks. The behavior, observed more often in ...

Too Much Junk Food from Tourists! Monkeys Resort to Eating Dirt as a “Stomach Remedy”

Monkeys in Gibraltar steal chips, ice cream, and cookies–and then eat dirt. Researchers have now taken a closer look at this ...

Monkeys in Gibraltar self-medicate with soil to help them digest tourists' junk food

Monkeys in a tourism hotspot have learned that swallowing dirt can quell the upset stomachs caused by overconsumption of ...
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Gibraltar's monkeys eat soil to ease junk food effects

Barbary macaques on the Rock of Gibraltar have been observed eating soil, especially red clay, in what scientists believe is a self-medicating response to digestive issues from tourist junk food. A ...
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Monkeys ‘self-medicate’ to help them digest tourists’ junk food

Macaques living on the Mediterranean holiday hotspot have learned that swallowing soil can quell upset stomachs caused by ...