Your morning adorable: Dog adopts orphaned macaque monkey in Thailand

Nov. 3, 2009 11:28 AM PT

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Monks at the Tung Luang Buddhist temple in Thailand’s Chiang Mai province recently began caring for a 3-month-old macaque monkey whose mother was killed by a hunter.

Helping them with the task of raising the young monkey is Tan, a resident ‘temple dog’ who, Metro U.K. reports, has not only taken the monkey under his wing but even voluntarily shares his food with it!

-- Lindsay Barnett

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