About 50 monkeys at Ohama park in Osaka, Japan, have been so overfed by tourists that they are now massively overweight, and officials have been forced to put them on a strict diet. [Xinhuanet]
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actually the monkey looked kinda cute to me…hehe
but they will die if they eat and eat and eat right??
poor monkey they have to go through diet…
Well, I assume obese monkeys will have more health problems just like obese humans.
lol, that is one fat monkey.
the ones i’ve seen in real life are pretty boney.
i don’t think tourists should feed zoo animals.
the job is for the zoo workers.
and monkeys aren’t humans.
they may not be able to adapt to eating less all of a sudden.
but i guess they can feed them healthier foods.
We won’t know if monkeys would adapt to diet or not… who knows, they might do better than human beings when comes to dieting ;)
You are absolutely right that tourists shouldn’t feed zoo (or park) animals… to make it worse lots of the tourists are not feeding them proper food, but with human junk foods.