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Macaques refuse food near filth, study on germ avoidance finds
Original: Will a macaque eat a grape sitting on a pile of poo? A study on germophobia
Researchers tested whether macaques would eat a grape placed on a pile of dung, probing how far primates' instinctive disgust goes. The monkeys largely avoided contaminated food, adding to evidence that germ avoidance evolved long before humans understood microbes. Scientists say the findings could help explain disease transmission patterns in the wild and inform future outbreak research.
Why now: The study offers fresh insight into the evolutionary origins of disgust behaviour, a topic of broad scientific and public interest.
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