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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 ...
Indiatimes

Gibraltar’s monkeys eat mud to fix upset stomachs caused by junk food

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 ...
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Monkeys eat soil to digest junk food from tourists

Travelers often expect to see unusual things when they visit famous places. Animals behaving in human-like ways can be funny at first. But sometimes those moments tell a deeper story about how people ...
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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 unusual behavior. A recent study suggests that the macaques deliberately ...
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 ...