


Zoo officials claimed that the unhealthy relationship between Chita and the woman makes the chimp a pariah among other socializing chimps. "I love that animal and he loves me," said Timmermans to the Belgian channel ATV. A woman has been banned from visiting a zoo in Belgium due to her unusual bond with Chita, a 38-year-old chimpanzee. ET Adie Timmermans has been banned from visiting a male chimp at the Antwerp Zoo in Belgium after officials claimed that their relationship prevented him. She believes that the attraction between the Chimp and her is mutual. In this time, Timmermans says that she had formed a strong bond with the primate, which is similar to a real "relationship." Belgian woman banned from zoo claims to have had ‘affair’ with chimpanzee. Timmermans said that she had been visiting the 38-year-old chimp named Chita every week for the past four years, reported the New York Post. Woman says the ban is unfair as other zoo-goers are still allowed to meet the chimpĪ Belgian woman took her love for animals to the next level by allegedly having an "affair" with a chimpanzee at a zoo.Īdie Timmermans has been banned from visiting a male chimpanzee at a zoo in Antwerp after zoo officials termed the relationship between the two unhealthy.The chimp’s friendliness towards human has made it a pariah among its own kind A Belgian woman has been issued a ban by the Antwerp Zoo, because of her close relationship with a male chimp that she had been visiting frequently for years.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 Belgian zoo has banned a woman after she claimed that she was having an ‘affair’ with a male chimpanzee named Chita, whom she visited every week. Woman says the attraction is mutual and the relationship is real 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.
