Sexually Frustrated Chimp Takes Up Smoking

[denverbill]

BEIJING (Reuters) - Sexual frustration has turned a Chinese chimpanzee from a mild-mannered simian into a problem primate who smokes cigarettes and spits at visitors, the Xinhua news agency says.



Feili, a female chimp in the city of Zhengzhou in the central province of Henan, picked up her nasty habits by imitating visitors who behaved "improperly" around her, Xinhua quoted zoo director Liu Bing as saying on Sunday.

But, Liu said, the root cause of Feili's transformation from a "gentle girl" into a "shrew" lay with the inability to find her a satisfactory mate.

A male chimpanzee at the zoo has failed to live up to Feili's sexual demands, and she has snubbed other potential suitors.
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Sorry, but I just liked the headline.

[flamingyouth]

1. And here I thought this was going to be about our dear leader!

Imagine my disappointment.:eyes:

[JohnKleeb]

3. haha

I thought the same thing!

[JohnKleeb]

2. haha no need to be sorry

Maybe Felli needs to experiment with other girl chimps. :shrug: there's evidence of bisexuality and homosexuality in chimps right?

[dolo amber]

4. Wow...that could

be MY story...:cry:

:P

[hadrons]

5. so Laura's holding out ....

[eyesroll]

6. Maybe that explains my recent "moods."

Maybe I should take up smoking -- I can do that (outside) at work...

[sam sarrha]

7. Chimps are not Monagamus..at all. they have been observed "Doing" all the

males in a troop.. the males just made a line and waited their turns.. other Females have been observed to fight off the waiting males and engage in Lesbian sex with the female..

Primates don't have any species that are monagamous... or apparently heterosexual.

[nickinSTL]

8. uh...

Where is the chimp getting the cigarettes?

Maybe in China it's considered ok...in a US zoo, there'd be h@ll to pay if a chimp was smoking.

on edit: make that in most zoos...and definitely any with AZA accreditation

[GOPisEvil]

9. Knowing some folks at the AZA as I do, they'd pitch a fit

if any of their zoos were doing this. Heck, they're probably pitching a fit anyway.

[liontamer]

10. lol

the poor girl. chimps take sexual satisfaction very seriously. But who is buying her cigarettes and lighting them?