You can just smell how good this must taste.

I could have very easily just left this picture here with no explanation, because some pictures just speak for themselves, but here is your explanation:

This is a Colobus Monkey having its fur grilled off so that it can be sold at an illegal bush-meat market in Libreville, Gabon. Also for sale at the same market were cooked Crocodiles, Antelopes, Porcupines, and Sea Turtles--all of which are protected species. The photograph was taken by David Maitland, and it won the One Earth Award--for highlighting the interaction between humans and the natural world--at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition last October.

Thanks to H. for the lead,

--Ms Sharky

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