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Overweight Monkeys In Osaka

About 50 Macaca mulatta monkeys at Ohama park in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture have been so overfed by tourists they are now massively overweight.

A local report in April said that about 30 per cent of the animals are so huge they struggle to get around their 420-square-meter enclosure.

See the full gallery of overweight monkey pictures here.

18 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - May 6, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Categories: Odd / Strange Tags: animals, fat, japan, monkeys

Chiablo

Michael Moore visits Japan.

http://neilduckett.com Neil Duckett

Hahaha! brilliant!

onceuponatime

oh, come on – that monkey is better looking than michael moore. but, seriously, it`s due feeding on people food because people think it`s cute to feed them. yeah, right up until they start snatching your omiyage right out of your hands.
Ryry

Can’t the tourists actually see that the monkeys are fat enough already?
あのん

That’s so sad.
Abe

Are they eating Chinese food?

Asuka

If Chinese food makes you fat, you’d see a lot more obese people in China than in the U.S.. I personally think the monkey was fed fast food from the West.

the overthinker

Maybe you will when the Chinese are as rich as the Americans….

http://www.hormel.com VonSkippy

Fat Monkey Meat – coming soon to a school cafeteria near you!
mike

wow, that’s a very fat monkey. i find the picture really disturbing.
morningstar

The Monkeys need a excercise time. also no monkey around.
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http://www.keepingpaceinjapan.com Turner Wright

How did these American monkeys make it to Japan?
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Uguisu

They do have “don’t feed the monkeys” sign, people just choose to ignore it. Why this happens in Osaka I don’t know. The Zoo in Tokyo doesn’t seem to have this problem, but there the mokeys have a scale, they can see how much they weight, so they are a lot more self-conscious about their weight haha.

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