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December 29th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Jill Reilly
Last updated at 5:55 PM on 28th December 2011
A New Year’s resolution for Britain’s fattest orang-utan has paid off after she lost a quarter of her body weight.
Tubby Oshine tipped the scales at just over 15 stone – more than double her natural weight – and after switching to a new regime has nearly four stone over the past year.
The 14-year-old ape has cut out sweets, jelly and marshmallows and instead tucks into a healthy diet of fruit, vegetables and plenty of exercise.
Cutting back on the calories: Oshine was kept as a pet in Africa for 13 years before being rescued but since arriving at a rescue centre in Dorset her weight rocketed so her keepers put her on a strict diet
THE O DIET
One apple or pear
One banana
Two carrots or parsnip
Small handful of fine beans
Two portions of soft fruit – plum, kiwi, melon, grapes, oranges, or tomato
One portion root veg – turnip, celeriac, or swede
Two cereal biscuits – such as Weetabix
Broccoli
Cabbage or greens
Celery
Cucumber
Leek
Mooli or radish
Lettuce
Treats – a few grapes every day
Weekly: two Eggs
One chicken breast
One cup of rice or couscous
Oshine arrived at Monkey World in Dorset last year from Johannesburg in South Africa having been kept as a pet for 13 years.
Her sedentary and unnatural lifestyle meant her weight rocketed.
Following intensive work by keepers at
the rescue centre, Oshine has lost a quarter of her weight, is
exercising and is now living with five other orang-utans.
She is also scaling a 20-metre climbing frame and has even adopted an orphaned baby orang-utan named Silvestre.
‘The O-diet has worked amazingly well for Oshine,” said director Dr Alison Cronin.
‘She has steadily lost a quarter of her body weight, amounting to nearly four stone over the year, and without it being too hard on her.
‘Oshine has been eating a healthy diet of fruit, vegetables, and lean protein the same as the rest of our orang-utans.
‘Combined with the exercise of
climbing and playing with the youngsters in our orang-utan creche, she
is much healthier and a lot more active.
‘Oshine still has more than 20 more kilos to lose but we are so happy for her and pleased that her health has improved.’
Monkey World is home to Europe’s only orang-utan creche.
Oshine arrived at the rescue centre from South Africa where she was kept as a pet since she was a baby
As members of the European Endangered
Species Breeding Programme (EEP) for this species, Monkey World not only
breeds orang-utans, but also offers a home to any babies born in
European zoos that are orphaned.
The main threat to the orang-utan in
the wild is habitat loss due to the logging of primary forest for
agricultural land and, in particular, the unsustainable palm oil
industry.
They are also used in the
entertainment industry or as pets and, although this is illegal, it is a
growing industry in south-east Asia.
Monkey World also breeds the critically endangered golden-cheeked gibbons and woolly monkeys at the park, as part of the EEP.
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