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The chunky monkey! Macaque nicknamed 'Uncle Fatty' gorges on tourists' food in Thailand
www.dailymail.co.uk ^
| Updated: 07:59 EDT, 28 April 2017
| Kelly Mclaughlin
Posted on 04/28/2017 8:31:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
The 33lb long-tailed macaque weighs twice the normal weight of a macaque Nicknamed 'Uncle Fatty', the monkey was fed by tourists in a Bangkok market Wildlife officials took him in for a health check and monkey 'fat camp' He has been put on a strict diet and made to run a around with other animals They say the money is not sick and that they want him to return to the wild
An obese monkey in Thailand is being sent to a fat camp after ballooning to twice the normal weight for his species - by gorging on food from tourists.
The 33lb long-tailed macaque - nicknamed 'Uncle Fatty' - had been getting fed sugary melons, milkshakes, sweetcorn and noodles, by visitors to a floating water market in Bangkok.
He developed an enormous belly before wildlife officials who received reports from concerned locals spotted him this week.
Uncle Fatty has now been rescued and taken for a health check and monkey 'fat camp' to try and reduce his weight to a more acceptable 17.5lb - normal for his species.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Agriculture; Health/Medicine; Pets/Animals; Travel
KEYWORDS: fat; monkey; obese; thailand
To: Red Badger
Most dogs I see here are uncle fatty.
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posted on
04/28/2017 8:33:04 AM PDT
by
sagar
To: Red Badger
The simian Michael Moore?
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posted on
04/28/2017 8:33:18 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
To: sagar
Here where?....................
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posted on
04/28/2017 8:34:42 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: Lazamataz
He is a simian..............
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posted on
04/28/2017 8:35:07 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/28/2017 8:44:36 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Red Badger
To: BenLurkin
I don’t know my friends. If we are their decedents we should take it as a warning on how slippery the slope is in our own behavior. Welfare? Cheap food thats to capitalist economies? I’m sure not everyone goes for what’s easy but the hard workers don’t get anything out of it but more responsibility.
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posted on
04/28/2017 8:54:45 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: Snickering Hound
There’s a McDonald’s in Pyongyang?.............
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posted on
04/28/2017 8:55:32 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: sagar
We have an outdoor cat that my wife named “Uncle Puffy”.Same problem.
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posted on
04/28/2017 9:10:54 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(Every time a toilet flushes,another liberal gets his brains.)
To: Farmer Dean
I had a friend who actually posted pictures of his cat around his neighbor with a message to please not feed him, he did have a good home.
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posted on
04/28/2017 9:30:18 AM PDT
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KosmicKitty
(Waiting for inspirations)
To: Red Badger
The Simpsons already did it. Pray for Mojo.
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posted on
04/28/2017 9:30:41 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/28/2017 9:32:03 AM PDT
by
Trillian
To: KarlInOhio
I see a Tandy (Radioshack) TRS-80 Model 100 circa 1989...................
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posted on
04/28/2017 9:36:23 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: Trillian; KarlInOhio
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posted on
04/28/2017 9:37:12 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: Red Badger
"There’s a McDonald’s in Pyongyang?............."
McDonard's.
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posted on
04/28/2017 9:39:33 AM PDT
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cweese
(Hook 'em Horns!!!)
To: cweese
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posted on
04/28/2017 9:40:27 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
To: Red Badger
He does a spot-on Michael Moore impression.
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posted on
04/28/2017 9:58:37 AM PDT
by
DPMD
To: Red Badger
"Hello..." ![]()
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posted on
04/28/2017 11:48:37 AM PDT
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Squeako
(You can lead a progressive to water, but can you make him drown?)
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