Still making the headlines

Moe, the missing chimp from SoCal, is back to old time fame. Now, the Washington Post has a story about him. More factual information and quite touchy-feely. A sample:

Because maybe chimpanzees aren't really supposed to wear short pants and live in suburban houses with humans who treat them as their child. It never really ends well, does it? Because even though the humans love them dearly, cute baby chimps grow into big adult apes, who can bite, which can have a tragic trajectory, as we shall see.

But then again, who are we to judge, those of us who have never put a pair of pajamas on an ape.

Soon, somebody will start selling t-shirts: "Live free".

Adding insult to injury?

Continuing to report o nthe Saga of Moe, the missing chimp from CA, now the headlines try to capture the reader's attention this way:

Toilet-trained chimpanzee goes missing in Californian forest

And a touching story at the end:

The couple broke down in tears at a press conference in Los Angeles. "What am I going to do?" said Ms Davis. "He meant the world to us," said her husband. "He was the best man at my wedding."

Well, I guess he had to be toilet-trained and he is a nice chimp, otherwise he might have started to throw crap at everybody, as sometimes they do. I wonder how he was dressed...

Born to be wild

In the news today: Celebrity chimp missing in Southern California. Probably not very good for Moe (his name) and everybody in the area, I think he deserves a break. From the LA Times article:

Moe showed up at local ribbon-cutting ceremonies and helped sell Girl Scout cookies, dressed sportily in the latest fashion.

Very abusive, if you ask me, but probably not entirely without his consent, or otherwise hell could break lose. From the same article, here is what a gang of chimps can do to a person:

The 65-year-old former NASCAR driver lost all of his fingers, an eye, his nose, parts of his cheek and lips, and pieces of his torso to attacking chimpanzees in 2005. The animals pounced after apparently becoming jealous that Davis was preparing to present a birthday cake to Moe at their refuge.

Sometimes docile, sometimes nasty. Kinda like us, huh? Luyckily we have advanced culture to put some break when our instincts show up.