"For his own health," she added, "Chita has to be part of the chimpanzee group as much as possible. Timmermans why we are asking this from her, and all our visitors, and why this is beneficial for Chita," the spokeswoman said. Timmermans to let Chita be a chimpanzee among chimpanzees, and not to stay with him for too long nor attract his attention. He has long had issues integrating into the zoo's chimpanzee troupe, reported De Gelderlander, noting that Chita was injured in a 2008 brawl with several other chimps.Ī spokeswoman for the Antwerp Zoo said Timmermans was allowed to visit the zoo but had been asked to change her behavior when she interacted with animals like Chita. "An animal that is too focused on humans is less respected by its peers," Lafaut said.Īccording to the Dutch daily newspaper De Gelderlander, Chita was once kept as a pet but was given to the zoo 30 years ago when his owners found his behavior unmanageable.
Being an animal lover is one thing, but a woman in Antwerp, Belgium, took the expression quite. Lafaut added that as a result of Chita's interactions with Timmermans and other human visitors, he spent all his time outside the zoo's opening hours sitting in isolation, shunned by the rest of the primate troupe. Adie Timmermans was banned from a Belgian zoo after having an affair with the chimpanzee Chita. "When Chita is constantly surrounded by visitors, the other animals ignore him and don't consider him part of the group," Lafaut told ATV. "Other dozens of visitors are allowed to make contact with Chita, but why not me?"īut Sarah Lafaut, an Antwerp Zoo spokeswoman who manages the zoo's mammal collection, said the ban was for the chimp's own good.
Why do they want to take this away from me?" Timmermans told ATV tearfully. Timmermans described her interactions with Chita as a "real relationship" and said her bond with the chimpanzee was like "having an affair." The primate enthusiast also shared clips of herself pressed up against the glass of the monkey enclosure, "kissing" Chita through the glass and waving to him. "I love that animal, and he loves me," Timmermans told the Belgian news channel ATV, adding she had been visiting Chita every week for four years.
0 kommentar(er)
