SHREVEPORT, La., Jan. 17, 2007
(AP) In a mysterious bit of monkey business, a female at a chimpanzee sanctuary has given birth, despite the fact that the facility's entire male chimp population has had vasectomies.Now managers at Chimp Haven are planning a paternity test for the seven males who lived in a group with Teresa, a wild-born chimpanzee in her late 40s who had the baby girl last week.Workers have started collecting hair samples from the chimps for testing. Once they identify the father, it's back to the operating room for him.Chimp Haven managers said they knew something was up when Teresa was missing during morning rounds on January 8. Later in the day, she appeared with a newborn chimpanzee in her arms."Well, we were all just a little bit surprised when we heard the news," said Linda Brent, a spokeswoman for Chimp Haven.The baby chimpanzee was named Tracy and she and her mother are doing fine, Brent said.Teresa had 10 other offspring before retiring to Chimp Haven over a year ago. This is her first baby in 13 years.It's also the first chimpanzee born at the sanctuary although officials there hope there will be no more accidents
5 comments:
I won't go there with the name. It sure sounds like it would make a good topic on Maury, who's this chimps father???
I heard the chimp had Kurt Busch ears?
So those things happen in the animal kingdom as well!
Ralph
Cheyenne, I'm here in Louisiana tonight. Should we run over and offer some help?
Our reports say they will do DNA testing on the males.
Hanky Panky will soon be gone. My hope is that this baby monkey will be healthy and not have some genetic defects.
After all its parents were animal test subjects (we should be hearing from PETA any day now too).
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I just think God had other ideas, they needed a freshness around there.
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