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Monkeys in Kagawa afflicted with hay fever (Video)

March 6th, 2007 by James

Humans like myself aren’t the only ones suffering from hay fever due to the Japanese government’s disastrous policy of planting way too many cedar trees in the postwar years. As this video news report shows, 10 Japanese macques at a monkey park in Kagawa are also afflicted with hay fever:

Poor monkeys, it’s not like they can take allergy medicine and use tissues. They’ll just have to endure the unendurable, and surrender to the misery of hay fever….



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2007-03-06 22:19:53

:’(

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Comment by akoua-san
2007-03-09 13:56:47

Why not we invent hay fever medication for simians?

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