The zoo said this wasnt good for Chita as other chimpanzees started excluding him. Adie Timmermans has been visiting the 38-year-old chimpanzee, Chita, for four years and the two used to blow kisses and wave at each other. Click the link to subscribe.Ĭlick to follow Telangana Today Facebook page and Twitter. A woman has been banned from visiting a zoo in Belgium after she said she was having an 'affair' with a chimpanzee. Now you can get handpicked stories from Telangana Today on Telegrameveryday. Adie Timmermans has been visiting Chita, a 38-year-old male chimp, on a weekly basis for four years and is now having what she described as a 'relationship' with the primate at Antwerp Zoo. The chimpanzees lover, however, feels the zoo is being unfair and questioned, “Other dozens of visitors are allowed to make contact. He then sits on his own outside of visiting hours,” the zoo said. “When Chita is constantly busy with visitors, the other monkeys ignore him and don’t consider him part of the group, even though that is important. A woman has been banned from visiting a zoo in Belgium due to her unusual bond with Chita, a 38-year-old chimpanzee.
Why do they want to take that away,” Timmermans told a source. Her visits continued for four years before the zoo authorities decided that an action had to be taken against the growing friendship as this ‘love affair’ was proving to be harmful for Chita – as it was becoming a hindrance in developing a relationship with the other chimpanzees. The two used to interact from the opposite sides of the glass enclosure while waving and blowing kisses at each other. Adie Timmermans, a regular at the zoos primate enclosure, was told this week by the Antwerp Zoo that she would be prohibited from seeing Chita, a 38-year-old. A woman who had quite a close relationship with one of the chimpanzees in a zoo has been asked to moderate her behaviour when visiting him because their bond is preventing him from connecting with the other animals. The woman named Adie Timmermans started visiting the zoo every week and used to keep conversing with a 38-year-old chimpanzee called Chita. A zoo in Antwerp, Belgium, has banned a woman from seeing her favorite chimpanzee because their relationship is interfering with the chimps ability to bond with his fellow primates.
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