Dog adopts monkey

A dog in Bangladesh has adopted a baby monkey - and she lets it suckle on her.

Mintu the pooch has become a local celebrity in her small village after she took the monkey in and started nursing it back to health to the astonishment of onlookers.

The dog's owner Mr Reza explained: "The little monkey would have had little or no chance of survival after a number of angry villagers grabbed it from a troop of monkeys which had invaded a rice paddy.

"The monkeys caused a great deal of damage and when the villagers chased them off they caught the baby, which wasn't in the best of health.

"I hate to think what would have happened to it if it hadn't escaped and made its way to my house where it moved in with Mintu's puppies."