Macaques have learned to eat soil to avert gut irritation caused by salty and sugary snacks, researchers believe ...

Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a ...

Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a ...

Animals eat food because they’re in constant need of nutrition replenishment and energy to survive. On the other hand, some animals resort to eating soil, which lacks the nutritional value needed for ...

Up to 80% of people in Africa, especially women, regularly eat clayey soil – this habit is known as geophagy. A previous study has already shown that it is a form of craving. Now researchers have ...

When I ask people if they have ever eaten soil before, they tend to give me a strange look. But geophagy – the deliberate ingestion of any kind of soil – is a practice that archaeological evidence ...

Macaques living on the Mediterranean holiday hotspot have learned that swallowing soil can quell upset stomachs caused by ...