Gibraltar's monkeys may be eating soil

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Gibraltar's monkeys find a clever way to avoid a junk food bellyache
By Marta Serafinko April 22 (Reuters) - On the tourist-packed Rock of Gibraltar, one of the most common sights is monkeys begging for food - and sometimes stealing sweet and salty snacks from unsuspecting visitors.

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Gibraltar’s monkeys may be eating soil to cope with junk food from tourists
Gibraltar’s monkeys eat mud ‘to avoid upset stomachs from tourist junk food’
Monkeys 'learn to eat soil to cope with junk food'
Macaques on Gibraltar eat tourist food rich in sugar, salt and dairy Monkeys living on Gibraltar have learned that swallowing soil can quell upset stomachs caused by eating snacks offered or stolen fr...

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Macaques on a junk food diet eat soil to soothe stomach ache
Monkeys at Tourist Destination Ingest Mud to Combat Tummy Issues Caused By Eating Junk Food, Researchers Say
Gibraltar's monkey's eat mud 'to soothe upset stomachs from tourist junk food'
In a study published in Scientific Reports, the scientists found that the monkeys ate mud more in areas where there were more tourists and that geophagy was more common in the summer, when tourist num...

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Monkeys eating soil to settle upset stomachs from junk food, says research
Monkeys in Gibraltar find way to keep eating tourist junk food without the upset stomach

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