Gibraltar’s macaques have been observed engaging in geophagy, the consumption of soil and clay, in an apparent attempt to ...
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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’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a ...
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.
Macaques ingest clumps of clay to help their digestive system process the sugars, fats, and dairy products from human snacks ...
If you crave a snack of dirt and clay, you may be pregnant. New research shows that eating dirt, also called geophagy, is most common during the early stages of pregnancy and in young children, where ...
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