Just in time for the new King Kong movie, some news regarding a just-settled lawsuit over Koko the gorilla. The two women involved…

…had sued the Woodside, California-based Gorilla Foundation, claiming its president had pressed them to bare their breasts for Koko to help bond with the gorilla. The two said foundation President Francine Patterson would interpret hand movements by Koko as a demand to see human nipples. They declined and were later fired in an act of retaliation for not indulging what the lawsuit called Koko’s "nipple fetish."

All parties involved have now been spared a trial, however, as a confidential settlement has been reached. According to a Foundation attorney:

Attorney Todd Roberts said the foundation agreed to settle the lawsuit to get on with its work. Terms of the settlement were confidential, he added. "We denied all of the allegations in the complaint and continue to deny the allegations," Roberts said.

For some strange reason, pandas come to mind.

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