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[monkeywire] Sexually frustrated Chinese chimp acts out
- From: Carrie McLaren <carrie AT stayfreemagazine.org>
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- Subject: [monkeywire] Sexually frustrated Chinese chimp acts out
- Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:32:55 -0400
Chimp gets impish over lack of love
Reuters in Beijing
Monday August 30, 2004
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1293544,00.html
Sexual frustration has turned a mild-mannered Chinese chimpanzee into a problem primate who smokes cigarettes and spits at visitors, the Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
Liu Bing, director of the zoo in Zhengzhou, Henan province, said that the chimpanzee, Feili, had picked up the bad habits from visitors behaving "improperly".
But the root cause was the zoo's inability to find her a satisfactory mate.
A male chimpanzee at the zoo failed to live up to her sexual demands, and she snubbed other potential suitors.
Zoo officials said Feili was not addicted to nicotine, but she has cunning tricks to secure a smoke.
A boy visiting the zoo said: "Just now a tourist threw a cigarette butt to just outside the cage, she tried to get the butt with a stick."
- [monkeywire] Sexually frustrated Chinese chimp acts out, Carrie McLaren, 08/29/2004
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