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An 8-year-old male macaque, Tasik, drinks wine in a zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. A zoo keeper gave red wine to the monkeys believing it was a preventative measure against H1N1. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
An 8-year-old male macaque, Tasik, drinks wine in a zoo in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. A zoo keeper gave red wine to the monkeys believing it was a preventative measure against H1N1. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin
