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[monkeywire] McCartney gives (AUS)$12,000 to chimp

From: Mark Podojil <mepodojil AT mindspring.com>
To: monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [monkeywire] McCartney gives (AUS)$12,000 to chimp
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 15:52:46 -0400 (EDT)

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6458925%5E1702,00.html

BRITISH musician Paul McCartney will provide the plane fare home for Toto, a
chimpanzee smuggled from Africa 23 years ago and forced to perform in a
Chilean circus, the El Mercurio daily reported today.

The former Beatle is donating $US8000 ($12,000) through Animal Defenders, a
British non-governmental organisation, to finance the trip.

The gift will allow Toto to live out his days peacefully in a Zambian
wildlife orphanage, under a court order in an animal cruelty case here.

Toto arrived in Chile in 1979, when the Koning circus smuggled him into the
country, according to Elba Munoz, who has been caring for Toto at the Primate
Recuperation and Rehabilitation Centre of Santiago since late January.

The circus billed him as a gorilla, forcing him to smoke, drink alcohol and
act like a boxer for its show, Munoz said.

[monkeywire] McCartney gives (AUS)$12,000 to chimp, Mark Podojil, 05/19/2003