OSAKA (Kyodo) Overweight rhesus monkeys in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, have managed to shed their excess weight thanks to a strict diet regimen over the past two years.
Some of the Ohama Park monkeys were so fat their protruding bellies dragged along the ground. They were even dubbed “metabo-zaru,” or metabolic syndrome monkeys, after their overweight human counterparts.
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