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 ...

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 ...
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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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'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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Endangered monkey babies arrive with adorable attitude

Adorable photos show a trio of endangered baby Barbary macaques cuddling up to their mothers after being born in the tree tops at a UK monkey sanctuary. The cute African monkeys are thought to be only ...

Monkeys discover unusual tactic that lets them binge on junk food – don’t try this at home

Researchers believe the high-sugar, high-fat, low-fibre snacks disrupt the monkeys' gut microbiome and cause digestive misery ...

Fury in Gibraltar over what tourists have been feeding its famous monkeys

Gibraltar's monkey population have started eating mud to settle their stomachs after consuming fast food from tourists, a new ...
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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.