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It's a story to warm even the coldest of hearts.
A newborn monkey in a Brazilian Zoo is being fed with breast milk, as zookeepers fight
to keep him alive. The miniature male baby golden lion tamarin was rejected by his mother
when he was only a week old. He has been surviving for almost seven days from donated human breast
milk. According to the vets at the zoo, the mother took good care her offspring for the
first week but then began rejecting him as he grew. Vets decided to utilize human breast
milk, after working out it has the closest biological proximity that of its mother. A
Brazilian journalist and new mum heard a plea asking breastfeeding women to donate milk
for an animal and said she was happy to help. A zoo worker has said that in a few months
they will hopefully be able to introduce the little monkey to a diet of solid foods.