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Travis (October 21, 1995 – February 16, 2009) was a male chimpanzee who was raised by and lived with Sandra Herold in Stamford, Connecticut.On February 16, 2009, he attacked and mauled Herold's friend, Charla Nash, blinding her, severing several body parts, and lacerating her face, before he was shot and killed by responding Officer Frank Chiafari.
Buddy and Ollie attacked St. James simultaneously; one chimpanzee initially attacked his face, the other chimpanzee attacked his foot. [7] The sanctuary owner's son-in-law, Mark Carruthers, retrieved a .45 caliber revolver and shot Buddy in the head. Meanwhile, Ollie dragged St. James' body down a walkway. Carruthers followed and shot him. [7] [3]
The chimpanzee shootings also prompted many reactions from biologists and conservationists. When interviewed about the incident, the noted Dutch primatologist Frans de Waal expressed shock that the 3-year old chimpanzee infant Torsten was among those killed by the zoo, as such a young ape did not pose any physical danger to humans. [25]
A California couple who once made national news for surviving a brutal chimpanzee attack in 2005 faced yet another tragedy years later when a Myanmar businessman reportedly exploited their ...
People living near a chimpanzee research centre in Guinea attacked the facility on Friday after a woman said one of the animals had killed her infant, the centre's managers said. Eyewitnesses said ...
The Gombe Chimpanzee War, also known as the Four-Year War, [3] [4] was a violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in the Kigoma region of Tanzania between 1974 and 1978.
A Second Chance for Chimps. In the late 1950s, chimpanzees were either bred in captivity or taken from the wild to be trained for space travel. Most famously, Ham was the first chimpanzee ...
Santino (20 April 1978 – 14 December 2022) [1] was a male chimpanzee held at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden. In March 2009, it was reported that Santino had planned hundreds of stone-throwing attacks on visitors to the zoo.