LONDON– Monkeys and bananas. ... UK Zoo bans monkeys from eating bananas for health reasons by: CNN Wire. Posted: Jan 15, 2014 / 11:03 AM EST. Updated: Jan 15, 2014 / 11:03 AM EST.

Monkeys have been banned from eating bananas by a British zoo because food grown for people is too sweet and sugary for them, officials said Monday. “Giving this fruit to animals is equivalent ...

Chunky monkeys at two British zoos have been banned from eating bananas. Bosses at Paignton and Bristol Zoos have put its simians on a strict slimming diet after discovering the sweet yellow ...

Wild monkeys do eat bananas, but the bananas that monkeys are fed in zoos are cultivated for humans to have more sugar. These bananas are just too sweet for primates.

ALBANY – No more monkey business says one Albany Democrat. State Sen. James Skoufis (D-New Windsor) wants to crack down on animal cruelty following controversy about “banana races” at the ...

Macaque monkey eating banana in the forest, Tonkpi Region, Man, Ivory Coast on May 6, 2019, in Man, Ivory Coast. Wild monkeys that live in large groups alongside human settlements are the disease ...