Bubbles (chimpanzee)

Bubbles ( * 1983 in Austin, Texas) is a male chimpanzee who was best known as the pet of pop singer Michael Jackson.

Life

Bubbles was born in 1983 in a biomedical research laboratory in Austin. After the animal had been separated from his mother, bought a Hollywood animal trainer chimpanzees. A year later, Michael Jackson bought the chimpanzees and toured in the next four years with him around the world, including in Japan. By the time Bubbles learned the most popular dance step Jacksons, the moonwalk. This he often led to the press.

Until the late 1990s, Bubbles spent at Jackson's Neverland Ranch. He was allowed to sleep in a bed, while meals with Jackson sitting at a desk or watching movies in-house cinema. Jackson broke up in 2003 by Bubbles after the monkey had become increasingly aggressive and dangerous to humans. Until 2005 he lived with his trainer in California. In March 2005, this gave him to the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula from, Florida.

The chimpanzee weighs 170 pounds and can be "adopted" for a price of $ 10,000 for one year. You do not receive a certificate, however, the possibility to remove him from his usual radius. The adopter must spend a night on the premises.

Bubbles in art

The American artist Jeff Koons created in 1988 from china, the life-size sculpture Michael Jackson and Bubbles. This one-off was sold in 2001 by Sotheby's in New York for $ 5.1 million and is owned by the Broad Art Foundation, Eli Broad. Owned by the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection sculpture Michael Jackson and Bubbles is (Gold ) by Paul McCarthy, who was born between 1997 and 1999.