Mirrors tame zoo's "gorilla' warfare

Luck now, India, It took only two mirrors to do the trick that had stumped zoo officials for months, arranging a truce between two feuding chimpanzees at an Indian zoo.  ":This has not only put an end to a "gorilla" war, but we hope it would also help them start mating," said B. Prabhakar, director of the Prince of Wales Zoological Gardens in the northern Indian city of Luck now.

Sunny and Cheena stopped fighting last week when two mirrors were hung in the cage they share.  "Now they are either busy appreciating themselves or trying to communicate with their mirror images," Prabhakar said Wednesday.  It took the zoo officials some time to realize that chimpanzees, like humans, are narcissistic and hate to be lonely.  "They had nothing to do.  So they would fight," Prabhakar said.  Now Cheena and Sunny have not only stopped fighting, they have started eating together, said their caretaker, Balaram, who uses only one name.