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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.
[9] [10] Moe did not participate in the attack. [4] Buddy and Ollie attacked St. James simultaneously; one chimpanzee initially attacked his face, the other chimpanzee attacked his foot. [7] The sanctuary owner's son-in-law, Mark Carruthers, retrieved a .45 caliber revolver and shot Buddy in the head. Meanwhile, Ollie dragged St. James' body ...
Buck, who weighed between 200 and 250 pounds, was shot at the keeper's request, authorities said. "You're going to have to do a head shot," Tamara Brogoitti told a 911 dispatcher.
Bubbles (born 1983) is a chimpanzee once kept as a pet by the American singer Michael Jackson, who bought him from a Texas research facility in the 1980s.Bubbles frequently traveled with Jackson, drawing attention in the media.
A California couple who once made national news for surviving a brutal chimpanzee attack in 2005 faced yet another tragedy years later when a Myanmar businessman reportedly exploited their ...
The couple sued following the devastating attack, and the matter settled out of court for $4 million. Couple mauled by chimps in 2005 later swindled out of $350K by Myanmar businessman: report ...
The 2022 Furuvik Zoo chimpanzee shootings occurred around 12 o'clock noon on Wednesday, 14 December, 2022, when a number of the chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) kept at Furuvik Zoo (Sw. Furuviksparken) in Furuvik, Gävle Municipality, Sweden, escaped from their enclosure into the chimpanzee building and park and made an attempt to exit the zoo itself, which was closed to the public for the winter ...
Among a slew of horrific accidents relate d to the ownership of a chimpanzee, Chimp Crazy highlighted a 2009 incident that saw a primate named Travis nearly fatally attack Charla Nash, a friend of ...