At the time when the world was becoming more and more exciting for a chimpanzee, around the age of two, he was captured in Africa and taken to an experimental laboratory in Austria. He had just been looking forward to life, but in one fell swoop it was all gone. When he finally returned to the company of other chimpanzees in 2002, we were particularly struck by his attachment to female animals. He is looking for his mother and certainly also for a partner. He has already found something, because Kathi clearly shows that she knows of no other chimpanzee that can groom so well. He is our "peeping Tom", because he looks at the ladies in the other living room at every opportunity. Fips has some catching up to do when it comes to his childhood and youth and is therefore extremely curious.
