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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...
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Gibraltar's macaques eat dirt to counter tourist junk food

Researchers in Gibraltar have documented Barbary macaques deliberately eating soil to ease digestive distress caused by high tourist-fed junk food consumption. The behavior, known as geophagy, acts as ...
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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 ...

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

Barbary macaques are munching on junk food ‘extremely rich in calories, sugar, salt, and dairy,’ say researchers ...

Monkeys In Gibraltar Eat Soil To Digest Junk Food Fed By Humans

The expert said that the foods brought by tourists and eaten by Gibraltar's macaques are extremely rich in calories, sugar, ...

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 ...

'World first' gene project helping rare monkeys

Mapping the DNA of Crinkle, a Barbary macaque at Trentham Monkey Forest, will fight wildlife crime.
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'World first' gene project helping rare monkeys

Crinkle, from Stoke-on-Trent, has been central to the project Researchers say they have achieved a "world first" by successfully mapping the DNA of a monkey in Staffordshire. The groundbreaking genome ...