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independent.co.uk excerpt Free porn, three females - and
still Casey the gorilla hasn't got a clue By Andrew Buncombe
in New Orleans 27 June 2004
By all accounts, Casey the gorilla should have no problems
with the ladies. Reports suggest the three females in his
cage are positively besotted with him. They flutter their
gorilla eyelashes at the handsome 21-year-old and follow
him around.
Casey, however, is not interested. So, frustrated by their
failure to encourage him to do his bit to increase their
population of primates, the curators at New Orleans's
Audubon Zoo have been resorting to X-rated tactics -
gorilla porn.
Zoo staff have put a television into Casey's den to show him
some pretty spicy films - a video on gorilla reproductive
behaviour, shot at Denver Zoo, and footage from an Atlanta
TV station, which had to bin a sequence showing two gorillas
getting amorous behind the show's blissfully unaware
presenters. Deep Throat it may not be, but staff had hoped
it might do something for Casey.
Sarah Burnette, a zoo spokeswoman, said: "Gorillas are so
endangered, and they are not overwhelmingly easy to breed.
The main point is to carry out careful breeding because the
gene pool is limited. No one is taking gorillas from the
wild any more - there are not that many left."
So far, though, Casey has not been aroused by the special
treatment. The staff know he likes to watch TVwhile his cage
is being cleaned, but the steamy gorilla action has yet to
improve his lacklustre performance.
The problem may be that because he was raised in captivity,
whatever tricks he may have learned from his keepers have
not helped him when it comes to getting it on with his
female admirers, Fanya, Binti and Praline, and luring them
to go for a roll in the bamboo.
Staff say Casey may be confused by the signals the females
give him. Rolling around in front of him counts as a gorilla
come-on, but flashing a puffy face is like saying: "Not
tonight, I've got a headache."
"He made the wrong pick once, moving for a puffy face and
all three of the girls jumped on him," Marsha Fernandez, the
zoo's primate curator, told the Times-Picayune newspaper.
"The females seem very receptive and interested but he just
doesn't know the dance."
Dan Maloney, the zoo's general curator, confirmed Casey's
companions were not the problem. "The girls watch [the
videos] too, but they don't seem to need it as much. Even if
it's a bit of a long shot, we're going to try it."
independent.co.uk excerpt Free porn, three females - and
still Casey the gorilla hasn't got a clue By Andrew Buncombe
in New Orleans 27 June 2004
By all accounts, Casey the gorilla should have no problems
with the ladies. Reports suggest the three females in his
cage are positively besotted with him. They flutter their
gorilla eyelashes at the handsome 21-year-old and follow
him around.
Casey, however, is not interested. So, frustrated by their
failure to encourage him to do his bit to increase their
population of primates, the curators at New Orleans's
Audubon Zoo have been resorting to X-rated tactics -
gorilla porn.
Zoo staff have put a television into Casey's den to show him
some pretty spicy films - a video on gorilla reproductive
behaviour, shot at Denver Zoo, and footage from an Atlanta
TV station, which had to bin a sequence showing two gorillas
getting amorous behind the show's blissfully unaware
presenters. Deep Throat it may not be, but staff had hoped
it might do something for Casey.
Sarah Burnette, a zoo spokeswoman, said: "Gorillas are so
endangered, and they are not overwhelmingly easy to breed.
The main point is to carry out careful breeding because the
gene pool is limited. No one is taking gorillas from the
wild any more - there are not that many left."
So far, though, Casey has not been aroused by the special
treatment. The staff know he likes to watch TVwhile his cage
is being cleaned, but the steamy gorilla action has yet to
improve his lacklustre performance.
The problem may be that because he was raised in captivity,
whatever tricks he may have learned from his keepers have
not helped him when it comes to getting it on with his
female admirers, Fanya, Binti and Praline, and luring them
to go for a roll in the bamboo.
Staff say Casey may be confused by the signals the females
give him. Rolling around in front of him counts as a gorilla
come-on, but flashing a puffy face is like saying: "Not
tonight, I've got a headache."
"He made the wrong pick once, moving for a puffy face and
all three of the girls jumped on him," Marsha Fernandez, the
zoo's primate curator, told the Times-Picayune newspaper.
"The females seem very receptive and interested but he just
doesn't know the dance."
Dan Maloney, the zoo's general curator, confirmed Casey's
companions were not the problem. "The girls watch [the
videos] too, but they don't seem to need it as much. Even if
it's a bit of a long shot, we're going to try it."
