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Sexually frustrated chimp takes up smoking
'Feili' picks up habit by imitating visitors

Updated: 11:46 a.m. ET Aug. 30, 2004

BEIJING - 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 said on Sunday.

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.

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.

Zoo officials said Feili was not addicted to nicotine, but the chimp has also demonstrated clever -- if not desperate --behavior to score a smoke.

“The chimp is spitting at tourists and smoking,” Xinhua quoted a boy visiting the zoo. “Just now a tourist threw a cigarette butt to just outside the cage, she tried to get the butt with a stick.”

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You should advise she do it in the butt.

So funny!

Call up Steven Spielberg and lets turn this sucker into a movie.

Matthew Broderick would be perfect

I've found the perfect job for The Afoci...

Size queen?

I wonder if he traded some fighting crickets for packs of smokes.

Next thing you know, he'l'l be hanging out with Dylan from 90210.

BTW, what happened to just throwing crap like American monkeys?

Going for the triple dola here...


Feili’s transformation from a “gentle girl” into a “shrew lay"...


Man, move one set of quote marks, and this becomes an entirely different sentence.