Cambodian monkeys saved from grim dinner fate
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Authorities in the Cambodian capital saved 70
monkeys from being smuggled to restaurants in Vietnam where diners tuck in
to their brains while the animals are still alive, a government official
said Thursday. "Rich people love to eat the brains of live monkeys," said
the chief of Phnom Penh's forestry department, Bou Bunleng. "As far as I
know they have a wooden table with a hole in it and clip the head of the
monkey and open its skull with a saw," he said. The monkeys, a type of
spider monkey, were found packed in cages on the back of a truck Monday.
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