From The Daily Mail
Regent's Park zoo launched an investigation today after a chimpanzee was pictured apparently making a 'human' gesture at a young visitor during a school trip yesterday.
The simian clearly raises its hands up under its armpits to apparently imitate a racist football fan while appearing to chant unintelligibly - yet menacingly - at local pupil Danny Welbeck.
The gesture threatens to re-ignite an ongoing row that has engulfed the zoologist community in recent years after the majority turned their backs on the theory of evolution, seeking to explain away the striking similarities between the behaviour of large apes and of human beings with the concept of 'intelligent design'.
A spokesman said: "London Zoo can confirm we are investigating an incident involving alleged human-like behaviour by one of the chimp's at yesterday's visit by St Custard's Junior School. We will be examining all available footage and ask anyone who can identify the monkey to contact us.
"London Zoo is committed to suppressing all evidence of ape-human similarities and if we have sufficient evidence we will take the strongest possible action, including chopping its head off and feeding it to the rival group in the next cage."
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1 comments:
I'm interested in this because I was at both matches this week.
The racist behaviour is picked up and run with by the media. That is their prerogative. But a more balanced report would also include some of the other poor behaviour by fans.
For example: Manchester United supporters threw stuff onto the pitch quite regularly (totally verboten) and a flare and a smoke bomb were set off by their fans.
Chelsea fans chanted some fairly offensive but non-racist things at United players.
I think football is going through a more aggressive patch after a few years of steadily becoming more family-friendly. The racism "issue" is a symptom of that but not the whole story.
BE
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