When I first glanced at the pic above, I thought it was Jabba the Hut from the Star Wars movies about to leer at Princess Leia.
But NOOO.
It’s an obese monkey in a park in Japan.
The zoo keepers are putting the not so cheeky but definitely jowly primates on a diet.
It seems well-meaning visitors to the park often chuck sweets and treats over the fence into the monkeys’ area. The largest of the least likely to be swinging from a tree primates is currently at more than twice the average body weight for the species (29kg instead of 11 kg).
Maybe these monkeys were the inspiration for one of my favorite flavors of Ben & Jerry’s delightful creations.
hee hee. Chunky Monkey’s my favorite.
This picture is so ugly, it’s cute! Why don’t they train them to be sumo monkeys? Or am I being culturally insensitive?
Actually, it makes me kinda sad. Luckily for them they probably don’t have internal body-issues like most of us.
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