The American Primate Party (APP) is very upset over this article, which says that malaria was passed on from gorillas to humans thousands of years ago. Apes across the nation are enraged over this suggestion, and mass demonstrations are planned to protest the article and contest its findings.

I spoke to Chongo about it "off the record", and he was a bit circumspect in his comments. I get the impression he thinks it might actually be true, but he has no intention of just throwing away this grand opportunity to raise a little hell and gain some political capital out of what stands to be a very hot issue with apes and monkeys. He plans to issue a statement shortly condemning the article as "specism of the most despicable sort" and demanding an immediate retraction by the scientific community. This will, of course, guarantee Chongo a solid turnout of support from gorillas in the next election.

Politics! ;-D