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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 ...
The Captive Primate Safety Act was first introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Rep. Eddie Johnson on March 16, 2005. [8] 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]
Fatal Attractions is a documentary series broadcast on Animal Planet from 2010 until 2013. First aired in 2010, the show focused on humans who have kept animals as unconventional pets that have turned out to be dangerous and sometimes fatal.
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 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 ...
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.
As experts explain, chimpanzees are small and manageable until they are about 5 years old, at which point they become 200-pound-plus wild animals kept in tight quarters among humans who aren't ...
A second chimpanzee was also loose. The two young chimpanzees involved in the attack were named Buddy and Ollie. [4] Two female chimpanzees named Susie and Bones also escaped from their cages during the attack; they were not involved in the assault on St. James and LaDonna and were recaptured five hours later.