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Last Sunday afternoon, an adorable one-week-old money was found struggling to breathe and severely malnourished in Bangkok, Thailand.

Little Olive was barely alive, with just a faint heartbeat. Her mother had gone missing and was not able to give her breast milk. She desperately needed liquids.

Luckily, rescuers found her and took her to the vets to give her a bottle of milk and saline solution with vitamins to help her get her strength back up.

Olive was nervous and shaking after being transported to the Samut Sakhon Animal Hospital, but she was safe.


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When she finally realised this, she calmed down, and staff gave her a bright yellow teddy, which she clung onto.



In a heartwarming video, Olive was seen cuddling up to her new yellow teddy, and drinking her milk as she settled down with the people caring for her.

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Naphakamon Nithijarumethee, a volunteer with a local monkey charity, said: ‘When we found Olive she was breathless, had no power, no force and did not eat food. She needed liquids.

‘She was one-week-old and sick. When she arrived at the hospital she received milk, vitamins and saline solution to make her strength come back.

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‘Olive is feeling much better now, but still her mother cannot feed her so the doctors have to give her milk.

‘She is still in the hospital and we are just waiting for her to return to her home where she lives outside with other monkeys.’

Hundreds of thousands of monkeys live outside in the wild across Thailand. When Olive is better, she will return to live near the King Rama 9 statue in the Samae Dam district of the capital.

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The area, which is by a busy roadside, is popular with monkeys and is also the home of Uncle Fatty, who made headlines around the world earlier this year for the opposite problem to Olive – he gorged on too much food given to him by tourists and needed to be sent to a fat camp to go on a diet.

Hopefully, Uncle Fatty will be able to teach Olive a thing or two – and help keep her healthy as she makes friends in the wild.

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