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To: Lucretius who wrote (198034)	10/16/2002 9:13:26 PM
From: Bid Buster	Respond to of 436258

fark that rally monkey, his azz is in the grill of my suburban.

To: Lucretius who wrote (198034)	10/17/2002 12:49:52 AM
From: TheStockFairy	Respond to of 436258

Baboons And Monkeys Used for Sex, Fun, Food, Muti And As 'Guard Dogs' East Cape News (Grahamstown) April 15, 2002 Posted to the web April 15, 2002 Mike Loewe Grahasmtown Bizarre and disturbing claims have been made that vervet monkeys and baboons are being sexually abused, swung around on chains, given "punk rock" hairstyles, eaten and slaughtered for muti in the Eastern Cape. Port Elizabeth representative for the international Primate and Exotic animal association Ms Karen Wentworth said blacks and whites in the province were guilty of the 20 cases of abuse followed up by her in Eastern Cape in recent weeks. The most shocking case was that of an elderly township man living in a run-down shack in Kirkwood who is strongly believed to have performed acts of bestiality with a vervet monkey. She said the monkey had tried to thrust its penis into the hands of inspectors, which "we suspect is behaviour which shows the monkey had been sexually abused". She said the man was already facing a charge of bestiality with a dog. While primates sometimes masturbated when under stress, such as while being kept on their own, "putting his penis a lady's hand is not the normal thing that monkey or any primate does". "There was definitely sexual abuse of some sort." In another case involving poor whites in Hollands Park in Port Elizabeth the took possession of a monkey which had been cruelly chained to a cement block, exposed to the sun and rain and with no food or water in sight. Nature conservation officials had found that "his fur had been shaved with a punk rock hair style down the middle of his head. His fur had been dyed his black and there was evidence that this monkey had been beaten regularly and fed a lot of alcohol." The abusers were fined R800. A two-month old baby vervet monkey was found in a Motherwell, PE school recently. "A number of teenage kids had him on a leash and were swinging him in the air." In the Queenstown and Sterkstroom area people were capturing baboons and eating them or selling them for muti. Her association had confiscated six baboons found in a bad way in the last year. "Some people eat them, others use them for muti and some believe the vervets bring them good luck." Sadly, the primates, especially baboons became vicious when kept on a chain and were used as "watch dogs". Meanwhile, a Kirkwood policeman could be charged under the Animal Protection Act for swinging a ginger cat into a wall and dumping the injured animal in a dirtbin. The docket is with the local director for public prosecutions for a decision. allafrica.com