Wuhan Zoo monkey caretaker Zhang Bangsheng licked a monkey's behind for an hour to help it defecate.

Zhang, age 50, used warm water to clean the small Francois' Leaf Monkey's buttocks, then began using his mouth to lick it for the next hour. Eventually, out came a single peanut.

This small Francois' langur is only 3 months old, and is the first Francois' Leaf Monkey to be born in nearly 10 years at the Wuhan Zoo in Hubei Province. The Francois' langur is a rare primate from Guangxi and Guizhou and is amongst the nation's most protected animals. Because it is endangered, the zoo put it under the care of Zhang, an expert animal caretaker.

During the May Day holiday, Zhang let the small Francois langur enter the monkey exhibit for the first time to meet visitors. The following day, Zhang discovered the little monkey had indigestion and difficulty in defecating. Seeing peanut shells on the ground, Zhang immediately understood that visitors had tossed peanuts to the monkey. The creature is toothless and had swallowed it whole. If the peanut remained in the monkey's system for too long, its life would have hung in the balance.

Medication was not an option for the money because it is too small any dosage could have caused too many internal problems, so the only option was to lick its behind to prompt it out.

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