Cytogenix (fka CYGX)

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Rick, I'm not sure how this is connected to cygx, but somewhere in this weird story is a moral that may be applicable. Any ideas ... LOLOL ... Seriously, you have made some brilliant suggestions over the years and serve as the perfect example of science falling prey tp NIH syndrome.

WOODSIDE, Calif. — Two former caretakers who refused to bare their breasts to the 300-pound, sign-language-speaking gorilla named Koko have settled a lawsuit against the Gorilla Foundation.

Nancy Alperin and Kendra Keller claimed they were fired after they refused to expose their bosoms to the primate, and after reporting sanitary problems at Koko's home in Woodside, an upscale town south of San Francisco.

The pair claimed they were threatened that if they "did not indulge Koko's nipple fetish, their employment with the Gorilla Foundation would suffer," the lawsuit alleged.

Alperin and Keller claimed that Francine "Penny" Patterson, the gorilla's longtime caretaker and president of the Gorilla Foundation, pressured them to expose their breasts as a way to bond with the 33-year-old female simian.