By Kate Hogan
PEOPLE.com
August 29, 2021
A woman who was having an “affair” with a chimpanzee at a Belgian zoo is in fact allowed to continue visiting the venue, despite earlier reports.
According to Ilse Segers, the communications manager of the Antwerp Zoo, Adie Timmermans was not banned from the zoo but rather asked to “change her behaviour” around Chita the chimpanzee, Segers said in an email to PEOPLE.
“There is no ban to see Chita, not for any visitor at the moment,” Segers wrote. “We only asked [Mrs. Timmermans] to change her behaviour towards this specific animal.”