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Bubbles the Chimp Snubbed for Invitation to Jackson Funeral
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by Blaine Metzgar | July 3, 2009 at 10:33 am
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Bubbles, the chimpanzee adopted by Michael Jackson, was snubbed for an invitation to Jackson's funeral. Bubbles now lives at the Centre For Great Apes in Florida and will not be making the trip to Los Angeles for Jackson's funeral.
The centre said there were no plans for him to travel to Jackson’s funeral and he will remain in his new home.
Jackson adopted Bubbles at the age of three from a cancer research clinic in Texas and the artist Jeff Koons made a series of sculptures of them together. They often wore matching outfits.
He is now aged 26 and weighs 160lbs. Keepers said that although he is “huge and ugly” he now has a “sweet” character and likes painting and listening to flute music.
Bubbles was Jackson's companion for a number of years, living at Neverland Ranch and even sitting in the studio during the recording of Jackson's album Bad as well as travelling on tour with the singer to Japan.
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at 11:17 on July 3rd, 2009
He should go - he could wear a black suit and everything, I think it would be a nice idea.
at 12:05 on July 3rd, 2009
Sadly, when a Chimpanzee gets old there is no way to control them unless they were hand raised 100% of it's life. A big male chimpanzee at the age of 26 would probably freak out since he has been in that wildlife park for years and i would hope no humans ever get in the enclosure with him because Bubbles could easily kill a human if it wanted to.
You can look at the case of the Chimpanzee that was living with the woman who attacked her friend because she changed her hairdo. That Chimp was only 13 i believe and the older they get the more aggressive they are. I have watched the Chimpanzees at the Maryland Zoo for a long time and the Male Chimpanzees will aggressively "display" towards other chimps or people through the glass, meaning they raise all the hair on their body while charging, picking up and throwing anything that comes in there way.
In a 2003 documentary, Living with Michael Jackson, the singer revealed to journalist Martin Bashir that Bubbles had become overly aggressive, and had been moved to an animal sanctuary.