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Macaque grape test probes germ avoidance in monkeys
Original: Will a macaque eat a grape sitting on a pile of poo? A study on germophobia
Researchers tested whether macaques refuse food contaminated by faeces, offering a grape placed on a pile of dung to see if the monkeys show disgust or hygiene-based avoidance. The study examines how germ aversion may have evolved in primates and what it could reveal about disease-spreading behaviour, drawing wide attention online.
Why now: The surprising experiment into whether monkeys feel germophobia taps into ongoing interest in how diseases spread from animals to humans.
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