| Apr 18, 2007 @ 12:52 PM |
Quit staring at my picture!!!
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raykl
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I want to concentrate on my ape friends.
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) -- We all know not to feed the animals when visiting the zoo. Now the Antwerp Zoo has urged visitors to, please, stop staring at the chimpanzees.
New rules have been posted outside the chimp enclosure at the city zoo urging visitors not to form a bond with a particular male chimp named 'Cheetah.' He was raised by humans but is now bonding with the seven other apes at the park, a zoo official said Wednesday.
"We ask, we inform our daily visitors and other visitors that one of the monkeys is particularly open for human contact," zoo spokeswoman Ilse Segers told AP Television News. "He was raised by humans in a family and therefore we are trying to integrate him, to try to get more social integration with the group."
She said Cheetah's continued interaction with humans was "delaying the social integration of the animal in the group," and isolating the ape from the others.
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| Apr 18, 2007 @ 1:33 PM |
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Loreli
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I did see a resemblance to the story involved!
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| Apr 18, 2007 @ 1:36 PM |
Quit staring at my picture!!!
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wiccked
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don't you mean evolved ????????? 
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| Apr 18, 2007 @ 3:37 PM |
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raykl
Posts: 566
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HAHA
May you both slip on my banana peels!!!! 
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| Apr 18, 2007 @ 4:03 PM |
Quit staring at my picture!!!
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wiccked
Posts: 12,300
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ouch !!!!! that hurt !!!!!! 
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| Apr 18, 2007 @ 6:25 PM |
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Loreli
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I just hope the other monkeys don't gang up on him....
Cheetah, not Raykl
Well him neither
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| Apr 18, 2007 @ 6:34 PM |
Quit staring at my picture!!!
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Empath
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I'm not sure I understand why they would put him out where he is able to interact with humans if they want him to integrate in simian society.  
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| Apr 18, 2007 @ 6:38 PM |
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jamminjerry
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speaking of simians! i have refered to them often in the holy roller threads!
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