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UK’s Paignton Zoo bans monkeys from eating bananas for health reasons

From CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/15/world/europe/uk-zoo-monkeys-bananas/index.html?hpt=hp_t2


Last updated January 15, 2014

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