Canadian Soldiers Adopt Lone Monkey in Kanduhar

A little monkey named Lucy has become the apple of the eye of a group of Canadian soldiers working out of Kandahar Airfield.

Lucy is believed to be a rhesus monkey – native to Afghanistan, neighbouring Pakistan and several other countries – and mysteriously appeared back in July as a pet at an Afghan guard station just outside of the main coalition base in southern Afghanistan.

Since then, she has been all but adopted by the Canadian soldiers who stop by the guard station on an almost daily basis.

(Continue reading in Canadian Press)

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