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Martell related that, as she set out on the long drive from the owner's home in the Nevada desert to the nearest hospital emergency room, the owner suddenly seemed to have a rare moment of clarity about the dangers of owning exotic cats; the owner reportedly said, "I knew this would happen; this always happens to people who own these kind of ...
The Captive Primate Safety Act was first introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Rep. Eddie Johnson on March 16, 2005. [8] The bill was reintroduced by Rep. Mark Kirk [9] in February 2009 following the widely publicized mauling of Charla Nash by a pet chimpanzee Travis. [10]
A coalition of wildlife organisations are urging peers to amend the Online Safety Bill in response to the growing practice of torturing animals for social-media videos.. In recent months ...
PETA conducts a search for Tonka, whom Tonia Haddix claims has died. Tonia appears in online court and tells the judge that she had him cremated. A side story portrays incidents surrounding Travis, one of the pet chimpanzees previously sold by the Missouri Primate Foundation. The episode ends by revealing that Tonka is alive and living in a ...
Charla Nash, the Connecticut woman who received a face transplant after a horrific attack by a friend's pet chimpanzee, had a minor setback last week when her body began to reject the transplant ...
Charla Nash, the woman who famously survived a terrible chimpanzee attack in 2009, is in Washington to push Congress for change. Charla Nash lost her eyes, nose and lips when her friend's pet ...
In Virunga National Park in the east of the country, the park authorities regularly confiscate chimpanzees from people keeping them as pets. [161] Outside their range, chimpanzees are popular as exotic pets despite their strength and aggression. Even in places where keeping non-human primates as pets is illegal, the exotic pet trade continues ...
In the 1997 movie “Buddy,” Rene Russo plays a wealthy, eccentric collector of wild animals. Hoarder might be a more fitting description. Chimpanzees are among the animals in her possession.