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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.
Lucy (1964–1987) [1] was a chimpanzee owned by the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma and raised by Maurice K. Temerlin, a psychotherapist and professor at the University of Oklahoma, and his wife, Jane.
Among a slew of horrific accidents relate d to the ownership of a chimpanzee, Chimp Crazy highlighted a 2009 incident that saw a primate named Travis nearly fatally attack Charla Nash, a friend of ...
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 ...
Oliver spent his last years with another chimpanzee, a female known as Raisin. She was placed with Oliver for companionship since Oliver's advanced age and years in the research lab left him arthritic, mostly blind, and unable to interact daily with younger, more playful chimpanzees at the sanctuary. [5] [12]
Zoo visitors at Chester Zoo in northern England recently got a shocking surprise: They watched a chimpanzee give birth to a rare baby.. The baby’s mom, Alice, gave birth to the newborn Dec. 29 ...
Sarah (full name Sarah Anne) (August 1959 – July 2019) [1] was an enculturated research chimpanzee whose cognitive skills were documented in the 1983 book The Mind of an Ape, by David Premack and Ann James Premack. [2] Sarah was one of nine chimpanzees in David Premack's psychology laboratory in Pennsylvania. Sarah was born in Africa in 1959.
Alec, who passed away in 2008, revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair that his wife told him his eyes looked baggy around a year after their 1978 wedding. This led to them getting his-and-hers ...