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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Watch the moment she sees the open sky for the first time, a rescue organization says.
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]
Sunday's finale of "Chimp Crazy" uncaged the entirety of a new docuseries from a co-director of “Tiger King.” For the four-part tale (now streaming on Max), Eric Goode peeled back the world of ...
Washoe (1965 – October 30, 2007) was a female common chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using signs adapted from American Sign Language (ASL) as part of an animal research experiment on animal language acquisition. [1] Washoe learned approximately 350 signs of ASL, [2] also teaching her adopted son Loulis some signs.