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Would a macaque eat a grape atop a pile of poo?
Researchers tested whether macaques avoid food contaminated by feces, offering a grape atop a pile of poo. The experiment probes whether monkeys show germ avoidance, a behavior humans rely on to reduce infection risk during outbreaks.
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