Chimps in zoo go mad after eating an apple
Chimps in zoo go mad after eating an apple EAP: Melbourne. Staff at the Royal Melbourne Zoological gardens routinely vary the diet of their resident animals to add interest to their lives but were taken aback by the reaction of the chimpanzee troop when it was decided to add apples to their diet. The strange events started early last month. In with the daily feed were added apples, a first for this troop but zoo staff were surprised when the chimps refused to sink their teeth into the then unfamiliar fruit. The entire troop surround an apple and started to hallow and shout to it. Eventually one of the more alpha males walked into the circle and carried the offending fruit to a corner of the chimps' enclosure where it could be ignored. Zoo chef Len Cooke was somewhat insulted by the rejection of his cuisine by the chimps. "I have a reputation with quite a few zoos around the world and without putting too fine a point on it if I was running a restaurant I would...