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Macaque study tests whether monkeys avoid contaminated food
Original: Will a macaque eat a grape sitting on a pile of poo? A study on germophobia
Researchers tested whether macaques refuse food that has come into contact with filth, offering the animals a grape placed on a pile of faeces. The study examines how far germ-avoidance instincts reach in primates, with implications for understanding how disease-spreading behaviours evolved. Readers are debating how closely monkey hygiene instincts mirror human disgust and what that means for outbreak prevention.
Why now: The counterintuitive question of whether monkeys share human germ aversion, and its link to disease spread, is drawing wide curiosity.
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