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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.
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]
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.
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Chimp Crazy, 2024 TV docuseries about chimps in the U.S. pet trade; Chimp Empire, 2023 documentary; Gombe Chimpanzee War – 1974–1978 event in Tanzania; Great Ape Project; International Primate Day; List of individual apes – List of notable non-human apes; One Small Step: The Story of the Space Chimps, 2008 documentary; Primate archaeology
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 ...
After speculating about what enabled humans' ancestors to leave the rainforest (the use of roots as sources of water and food), Demonic Males next provides a catalog of the types of violence practiced by male chimpanzees (intragroup hierarchical violence, violence against females, and extragroup murdering raids). The high incidence of rape by ...
The HBO docuseries depicts subject Tonia Haddix lying about the whereabouts of a chimpanzee, Tonka, in her care. After seeing it, a PETA lawyer asked an assistant U.S. attorney to press charges.