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Amorous Monkey Business Outrages Town
Wednesday May 30 10:25 AM ET
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010530/od/monkey_dc_4.html


COLOMBO (Reuters) - A sex-crazed male monkey has caused an
uproar in a central Sri Lankan town, stalking and attacking
girls in public and flirting outrageously with cats and dogs, a
newspaper said on Wednesday.

The monkey has roused the anger of residents of Kundasale by following
young women around the town, jumping on them without warning and clinging
tenaciously until it was chased away with sticks and stones, the Daily News
reported.

Apparently having little success with human females, the
primate also makes advances on other animals to which it has ``a
very strong affinity (particularly) cats and dogs of the
opposite sex,'' the newspaper said, adding the creature fed its
libido by stealing chocolates from local shops.

The monkey business has outraged the town in Sri Lanka's
conservative rural heartland where public displays of affection
are frowned upon even between humans of the opposite sex.