Drug-crazed chimps devour the Earth -- bit by bit
ScienceDaily (Jan. 9, 2008) — The deliberate ingestion of soil, or ‘geophagy’, has important health benefits for chimpanzees, according to Sabrina Krief and her colleagues from the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France. Far from being a dysfunctional behavior, geophagy has evolved as a practice for maintaining health amongst chimpanzees. In this particular study geophagy is shown to increase the potency of ingested plants with anti-malarial properties.
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