Karaganda zoo monkeys given wine 'to ward off flu'

06.02.2012
    By Patrick Jackson     A zoo in central Kazakhstan, where overnight temperatures have dipped to nearly -40C, is giving monkeys a wine concoction as a remedy against flu.     Karaganda Zoo chief animal specialist Svetlana Pilyuk told local media it was not a matter of making the animals drunk but of "relaxing" them.     The...