GOMBE THE CHIMPANZEE EATS AN APPLE WHILE TOURIST AND STUDENTS GATHER ROUND AT THE ZOO...

A two-year-old chimpanzee named Gombe eats an apple as eight-month old Lousia Lang of Germany has a close look at the primate while local students gather around at the Singapore Zoological Gardens October 31, 2000. Renowned wildlife photographer Karl Ammann from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association and international animal rights groups have accused the Singapore zoo of forcibly removing young chimpanzees from their mothers, keeping them in cages, and training them to pose with visitors by using fear and punishment, charges the zoo has denied. ST/JD