Diets Aren’t Just For People
In a bit of a random news today, it’s quite shocking to see this picture of a monkey that’s overweight. Turns out that tourists coming to visit the Ohama Park in the Japanese city of Osaka have been feeding the monkeys there so much food that now some of the monkeys can hardly walk.
These monkeys that need to go on a diet are mulatta monkeys that usually weigh 11kg in the wild. But because of a daily supplement of crips, breads and sweets given to them by unknowing tourist, these monkeys are now overweight with some weighing over 15kg. One male monkey now weights 29kg and can’t do much more than shuffle and wait for more handouts. Others male monkeys are overweight where visitors think they are pregnant.
Because of the health threat this poses to these monkeys, they are now been put on a special low fat diet and visitors are now told to stop feeding them. But like always, people still ignore these rules and still feed them unfortunately. The city is considering a fence to stop people from throwing in food.
source: Telegraph.co.uk
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