'Pretty woman' in monkey trouble!

Oscar winning actress Julia Roberts has invited the anger of animal rights groups by posing for photographs with chained monkeys in Morocco recently.

Oscar winning actress Julia Roberts has invited the anger of animal rights groups by posing for photographs with chained monkeys in Morocco recently.

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Julia reportedly raised this controversy when she took time out of filming Charlie Wildon’s film War in Marrakech and went for a tour of the city.

According to Contactmusic, she could not contain her desire to have snaps with Barbary monkeys in the city’s famed Djemaa El Fna.

Animal rights groups and respected travel guides such as Lonely Planet always ask tourists not to pay for posing with the macaques, who have been removed from their natural habitat in the nearby Atlas Mountains, and are kept in chains all day.