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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.
“He ripped her face off!” a chimp owner in Connecticut can be heard on a 911 call, amidst sounds of the chimp’s distressed screeching. A visiting friend, who had known the chimp since it was ...
Tonia Rene Haddix was born on August 7. According to her Facebook profile, she is from Ozark, Mo., and now lives in Sunrise Beach, Mo.Before becoming an exotic animal broker, she was a registered ...
A side story reveals that Sandra Herald, the owner of Travis, sought to purchase a baby chimpanzee to console herself in the wake of Travis's death. Tonka, upon transferring to Save the Chimps, regains mental and physical health after a 60-day quarantine. He receives a healthy diet, sunshine, and makes new chimp friends.
As with that series, "Chimp Crazy" — as the title suggests — is less about the animals than the people who own them. The four-part docuseries premieres Sunday on HBO at 10 p.m. Pacific and ...
J. Fred Muggs (born March 14, 1952) is a chimpanzee born in the African colony of French Cameroon that forms part of modern-day Cameroon.Brought to New York City before his first birthday, he was bought by two former NBC pages and eventually appeared on a host of television shows on that network including NBC's Today Show where he served as mascot from 1953 to 1957.
Sunday's finale of "Chimp Crazy" uncaged the entirety of a new docuseries from a co-director of “Tiger King.” For the four-part tale (now streaming on Max), Eric Goode peeled back the world of ...
Peter (alias "Pierre Brassau") in 1964Peter, better known by his alias Pierre Brassau, was a chimpanzee and artist who was the subject of a 1964 hoax perpetrated by Åke "Dacke" Axelsson, a journalist at the Swedish tabloid Göteborgs-Tidningen.