A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover ...

Sometimes the search for words to describe a place becomes the journey itself. My friend and I had spent the afternoon with wild monkeys perched on our heads. We had witnessed smugglers with ...

Over the centuries, their population fluctuated due to various factors such as disease, war, and human interference. At present there are around 200-300 monkeys on Gibraltar. During World War II, Sir ...

Monkeys living on Gibraltar have developed a unique coping mechanism for their junk food habit: swallowing soil to quell upset stomachs caused by sweet and salty snacks offered or stolen from ...

Gibraltar's monkeys "self-medicate" to help them digest tourists' junk food, reveals new research. Troops of macaques living on the Mediterranean holiday hotspot have learned that swallowing soil can ...

Researchers said the monkeys have been observed eating soil more frequently, a behavior they said may help the macaques avoid stomach upset from consuming human snacks. They found that soil-eating was ...

While humans settle their digestive unrest by popping pills and gulping down laxatives, do you know how animals deal with an upset stomach? Interestingly, in the wild every animal has a different way ...

A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover ...