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Darwin knows what cameras look like – and how to avoid them. From inside his enclosure, the monkey of Toronto Ikea parking lot fame spots us out of the corner of his eye and bolts under the table.

The now 13-year-old Japanese macaque has seen enough of the spotlight to last a lifetime.

Darwin was just a baby when he was found in a North York Ikea parking lot in 2012, wearing a diaper and shearling coat, and seized by animal services. He’s been living at Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary in Sunderland, Ont., ever since.

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[-] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 6 points 2 days ago

simpler times when the biggest stories in Toronto were this monkey and the vigil for a dead raccoon.

I want to go back.

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip -2 points 2 days ago

They were never the biggest stories, it was your view of what you saw as stories.

[-] Mpatch@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Still a better view than your face. Burrrrrrrn.

[-] rozodru@pie.andmc.ca 2 points 2 days ago
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