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.

A tourist feeds a Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) in Gibraltar. A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover from their ...

Monkeys in a tourism hotspot have learned that swallowing dirt can quell the upset stomachs caused by overconsumption of sweet and salty snacks fed to them by holidaymakers, a new University of ...

An unsavory food fad has emerged among macaques living on the Rock of Gibraltar in the Mediterranean. Scientists have noticed the troop has started to intentionally eat soil, perhaps to soothe their ...

Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a new study. Scientists say it may help the animals digest high-calorie foods, ...