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Monkey indigestion? Eat dirt

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 ...
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 ...

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 ...
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.

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 ...
The Guardian

Gibraltar’s monkeys eat mud ‘to avoid upset stomachs from tourist junk food’

Macaques have learned to eat soil to avert gut irritation caused by salty and sugary snacks, researchers believe Troops of monkeys living on the Rock of Gibraltar have learned to eat soil in what ...
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 ...

Monkey indigestion? Eat dirt

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.