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Chimpanzees appear in Western popular culture as stereotyped clown-figures and have featured in entertainments such as chimpanzees' tea parties, circus acts and stage shows. Although chimpanzees have been kept as pets, their strength, aggressiveness, and unpredictability makes them dangerous in this role.
Fatal Attractions is a recurring documentary series broadcast on Animal Planet.First aired in 2010, the show focused on humans who have kept animals as unconventional pets that have turned out to be dangerous and sometimes fatal.
An exotic pet is a pet which is relatively rare or unusual to keep, or is generally thought of as a wild species rather than as a domesticated pet. The definition varies by culture, location, and over time—as animals become firmly enough established in the world of animal fancy , they may no longer be considered exotic .
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 ...
It may seem that having a pet chimp to tickle and play with would be a lot of fun, and it would be! But chimps are wild and dangerous animals. They are very intelligent and seem so humanlike, ...
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.
Once captive chimpanzees became covered under the Endangered Species Act in 2015, we initiated the first lawsuit on behalf of a chimpanzee named Joe, who lived at the Mobile Zoo in Alabama.