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 ...

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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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.

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 ...
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 ...

Gibraltar's monkeys find a clever way to avoid a junk food bellyache

By Marta Serafinko April 22 (Reuters) - On the tourist-packed Rock of Gibraltar, one of the most common sights is monkeys ...

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 ...