Gibraltar macaques are self-medicating with dirt to help them digest human. junk food
Gibraltar’s macaques have been observed engaging in geophagy, the consumption of soil and clay, in an apparent attempt to quell their nausea from eating fatty and salty foods offered by tourists
- Gibraltar’s monkeys may be eating soil to cope with junk food from tourists South China Morning Post —
- Monkeys at a popular tourist site have been doing something unusual. This is what might be happening. CTV News —
- Gibraltar’s monkeys have found a clever way to avoid a junk food bellyache – eating soil The Globe and Mail —
- Monkeys eating soil to soothe stomachs after eating too much junk food The Independent —
- Monkeys eating soil to 'settle upset stomachs from junk food' Sky News —