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NASCAR Winston West Series driver St. James Davis and his wife, LaDonna, had a pet chimpanzee named Moe, whom they treated as if he were a child. After Moe bit several people, the city of West Covina, California, seized and placed him in an animal sanctuary near Bakersfield, California.
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.
Violence during these patrols usually occurred against isolated females and infants; the male patrols would mostly avoid each other or, if they met in equal numbers, limit themselves to noisy shows of force instead of seeking battle. [10] Accordingly, Goodall did not foresee the upcoming full-scale conflict between the two communities in Gombe. [4]
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After consulting veterinarians, and excluding the use of anesthesia due to risks involved, the park's CEO and animal manager made the joint decision to shoot the two chimps. Zoo staff opened fire on them using live ammunition, killing Linda and her adoptive infant son Torsten. Later in the afternoon, three chimps escaped the chimpanzee building.
Each story is tied together at the end, as part of the overall theme of why wild animals should remain in the wild and not in backyards. Many episodes deal with high-profile animal attack cases, such as the February 2009 mauling of Charla Nash by Travis , a 14-year-old chimpanzee who had lived as a pet for his entire life with Connecticut ...
Peet and PETA are optimistic Chimp Crazy can generate the same kind of interest for the Captive Primate Safety Act, a bill recently reintroduced in the U.S. House and Senate that seeks to prohibit ...
Editing is selective, to be sure, but there is no doubt, from what we see, that these animals are in distress. "She is not qualified to care for chimpanzees," says PETA's Goodman. "She does not ...