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Monkeys Work as Waiters in Japan

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Restaurants are always hit hard during economic downturns, but one restaurant in Japan has a novel approach to cutting costs: replace the wait staff with monkeys. The monkeys only work two hours a day, but bring in tourists from around the globe. Tags: Stupid Japan monkeys.

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Japan Monkeys: A Member Of Gang Terrorizing Locals Caught And Killed In Yamaguchi

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submitted by /u/Motor-Ad-8858 [link] [comments].

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Unacceptable Trade in Primate Research Animals

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Here's a post on the Red, Green and Blue blog about the unspeakable trade in macaque monkeys as research subjects. Around 10,000 are bred and exported from Mauritius to the US, UK and Japan. If they think about what's going on and their role in it, then they might actually have to care.

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I Remember Elephants

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A laughing matter (Japan was first to laugh at it, saying it doesn’t give a …, well, not in those exact words). There were a lot of elephant dung along the dirt tracks – an entire fortune, having in mid that a framed slice of it could be bought in curio shops for 8 Euros. But I do not feel amused by it.

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