• Question: do monkeys ever have to go on a diet?

    Asked by to Lewis on 17 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Lewis Dean answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      In the wild they don’t, but in the zoo they have a carefully controlled diet. They get a huge variety of different foods (different species have different favourite foods). The capuchins that I work with at the moment get lots of vegetables and fruit and some days they also get eggs and chicken. This is similar to their diet in the wild (capuchin monkeys eat lots of different things).

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