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The bill was reintroduced by Rep. Mark Kirk [9] in February 2009 following the widely publicized mauling of Charla Nash by a pet chimpanzee Travis. [10] Rep. Rob Bishop argued against the bill during the floor debate, noting it would cost $4 million annually and do nothing directly to prevent chimpanzee attacks on humans; he also noted such ...
Martell related that, as she set out on the long drive from the owner's home in the Nevada desert to the nearest hospital emergency room, the owner suddenly seemed to have a rare moment of clarity about the dangers of owning exotic cats; the owner reportedly said, "I knew this would happen; this always happens to people who own these kind of ...
In Virunga National Park in the east of the country, the park authorities regularly confiscate chimpanzees from people keeping them as pets. [161] Outside their range, chimpanzees are popular as exotic pets despite their strength and aggression. Even in places where keeping non-human primates as pets is illegal, the exotic pet trade continues ...
In the 1997 movie “Buddy,” Rene Russo plays a wealthy, eccentric collector of wild animals. Hoarder might be a more fitting description. Chimpanzees are among the animals in her possession.
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 ...
Wild chimpanzees inhabit various environments in Africa, from dense tropical rainforests to more open woodland and savannah areas. Researchers examined genetic data from 388 wild chimpanzees in 18 ...
The bonobo (/ b ə ˈ n oʊ b oʊ, ˈ b ɒ n ə b oʊ /; Pan paniscus), also historically called the pygmy chimpanzee (less often the dwarf chimpanzee or gracile chimpanzee), is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan (the other being the common chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes). [4]
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 ...