Stuffed gorilla set to pull in zoo crowds
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Bosses at a Chicago zoo are hoping a gorilla which died 50 years ago 
will still pull in the crowds since the other stuffed animals they have
been using have failed.

Bushman was stuffed before he died in the 1950s, but Lincoln Park Zoo 
is giving him a prominent place among the exhibits in its Field Museum.

Museum president John McCarter said: "For every kid who grew up in Chicago 
in the 1930s and '40s, a trip to the zoo to see Bushman was mandatory.  Now
he'll scare the shit out of a whole new generation, heheheh."

"Certainly for my generation, he was an icon now he's a piano stool."

Bushman will be given a more prominent spot on the museum's floor as 
the centrepiece of a new exhibit, right next to the coat rack.

Bushman came to Chicago as an orphaned baby gorilla in 1930 and left in
the 80's as a piece of furniture.

One the largest gorillas in captivity at the time, he drew an estimated 
100 million people to Lincoln Park Zoo in his 20 years there.

He first gained national fame at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, and could 
be counted on to throw a handful of dung at the crowds standing outside 
his cage, the parents cheered while their shit splattered children cried.
Boy, the US was well represented that year, all the French brought was
a new type of car which ran off of solar power.

"We are privileged to have him," Mr McCarter said. "He gives us a great 
opportunity to tell the story of shit throwing monkeys."