The macaques of Gibraltar love stealing human junk food, but the treats play havoc on their digestive systems ...
Gibraltar’s famous wild macaques have been observed doing something relatively uncommon for monkeys – eating dirt.
Gibraltar’s famous wild macaques have been observed doing something relatively uncommon for monkeys – eating dirt.
Macaques have learned to eat soil to avert gut irritation caused by salty and sugary snacks, researchers believe ...
Monkeys living on Gibraltar have developed a unique coping mechanism for their junk food habit: swallowing soil to quell ...
Eating soil may allow the primates to keep eating junk food by helping to line the gut to prevent irritation from too much ...
Monkeys in a tourism hotspot have learned that swallowing dirt can quell the upset stomachs caused by overconsumption of ...
Soil helps monkeys' stomachs settle after calorie-rich snacks from tourists, research suggests.
Recent studies suggest that animals and people alike have close and complex relationships with the bacteria around and within ...
How does the gut talk to the brain? A new study identifies polysaccharides and peptidoglycans as the key bacterial signals ...
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