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A Scoop of Mental Sorbet

Here's your chimp fix, as advertised.

Imagine you're a chimp living in a zoo and one morning your keeper accidentally lets you loose. What is the first thing you'd do? I'd raise holy hell, shriek obscenities at the gaping tourists ("What are you looking at, buster?"), then steal the fastest car in the parking lot and head for the hills.

Last week, Judy, a 37-year-old, 120-pound female chimp faced just such an opportunity. What she did with her newfound freedom was this: She cleaned the bathroom. Actually, she first stopped at the zookeepers' refrigerator for a snack, then she scrubbed their toilet with a brush. And then she rinsed out a sponge and went back to the kitchen and wiped away the messy spots in the refrigerator she'd noticed while she was getting her snack.

Her cleaning rampage ended only when she was knocked out by several tranquilizer darts - note that it took several darts to bring down this primate Martha Stewart. It seems Judy had once been a house-chimp and was trained in the domestic arts. Old habits die hard.

It seems strange that primates would have such a strong bathroom-cleaning instinct, but it's been well-documented, ever since man first placed monkey into humorous situations.  And good news: you too can have a bathroom that's monkey-clean and monkey-fresh, available in one of three designer colors.

There's even a model trained specially for cat owners.

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A Scoop of Mental Sorbet

Here's your chimp fix, as advertised.

Imagine you're a chimp living in a zoo and one morning your keeper accidentally lets you loose. What is the first thing you'd do? I'd raise holy hell, shriek obscenities at the gaping tourists ("What are you looking at, buster?"), then steal the fastest car in the parking lot and head for the hills.

Last week, Judy, a 37-year-old, 120-pound female chimp faced just such an opportunity. What she did with her newfound freedom was this: She cleaned the bathroom. Actually, she first stopped at the zookeepers' refrigerator for a snack, then she scrubbed their toilet with a brush. And then she rinsed out a sponge and went back to the kitchen and wiped away the messy spots in the refrigerator she'd noticed while she was getting her snack.

Her cleaning rampage ended only when she was knocked out by several tranquilizer darts - note that it took several darts to bring down this primate Martha Stewart. It seems Judy had once been a house-chimp and was trained in the domestic arts. Old habits die hard.

It seems strange that primates would have such a strong bathroom-cleaning instinct, but it's been well-documented, ever since man first placed monkey into humorous situations.  And good news: you too can have a bathroom that's monkey-clean and monkey-fresh, available in one of three designer colors.

There's even a model trained specially for cat owners.