James Davis, who raised a chimpanzee as a pet, was attacked by escaped chimps at an animal sanctuary in 2005 he was left with injuries and disfigurement so severe that doctors kept him in a medically induced coma for three months. Attacks on human beings are rare, but they do happen and the results are often catastrophic. Though mostly vegetarian, they will also hunt and kill other animals for food young male chimpanzees in Africa have been known to fashion crude weapons and use them to hunt bushbabies for meat. Highly territorial, chimpanzees will attack and kill other chimps. Nor are wild chimpanzees the docile, childlike creatures portrayed on TV. I would not want to be standing next to one." ( See pictures of animals with prosthetic limbs.) "An adult male chimpanzee is a formidable animal. "They are incredibly powerful, and people underestimate that," says McCann. chimpanzee is five to seven times stronger than a person of the same size, especially in the upper body. Travis himself was reportedly a beloved figure around Stamford he was recognizable from television commercials, could bathe and dress himself and use a computer qualities that made him seem dangerously close to human.īut adult chimpanzees might be better described as superhuman a 200-lb. It might be hard to imagine that a chimpanzee familiar from zoos, animal shows and slapstick comedies like Cannonball Run could be capable of the kind of savage violence inflicted on Nash. This is tragic, but it's not surprising." ( See pictures of animals in space.) "They are wild animals, and all wild animals are potentially dangerous," says Colleen McCann, a primatologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and New York's Bronx Zoo. No matter how many years it has lived peacefully as a pet, a chimpanzee is not a domesticated animal and can snap without warning. The chimp was shot dead by a police officer, who was also attacked.īut even as investigators try to figure out exactly what triggered Travis's attack (he had been suffering from Lyme disease, which in rare cases is linked to psychotic behavior), the reality is that a chimpanzee living among people is simply a ticking time bomb. The victim's injuries were reportedly gruesome the head paramedic who treated Nash on the scene told the New York Times that he had "never seen anything this dramatic on a living patient." Nash remains in extremely critical condition. ( See pictures of animals facing extinction.) The 14-year-old chimpanzee latched onto Nash's face and tore it apart. But when Charla Nash, 55, a friend of Herold's, visited on Monday afternoon, Travis suddenly lashed out at her. chimp named Travis, whose owner, Sandra Herold, 70, raised him as part of her own family, had no history of violence aside from one incident in 2003, when he escaped and stopped traffic in Stamford for hours. By accessing, communicating or using this podcast, you agree to be bound by the terms available at Follow ferocious attack by a chimpanzee of a woman in Stamford, Conn., on Feb. Get tickets to the Just The Gist LIVE shows:įollow us on Insta! us your suGISTions! /listener for privacy information.Ģ023 315850 LiSTNR - Text, image, music and sound comprising this podcast are owned by or licensed to SCA. Get tickets to Rosie’s comedy show Kid Chameleon: See how much Charla’s condition had improved by 2014: Watch the video of Oprah’s interview with Charla in Oct 2009: Read an in-depth article from New York magazine about Travis's life: (And obviously went on Oprah, in what is now remembered as one of her most harrowing, famous interviews: with a woman forced to wear a veil because she no longer had a face.)We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this: Probably even more shocking is that the woman Travis attacked SURVIVED. And that became all too clear the day a call came through to the Connecticut 911: “HELP PLEASE! HE. But no matter how domesticated he became, Travis was still, at the end of the day, a wild animal.
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Seriously - by the time he was ten, he had favourite TV shows, helped mow the lawn, loved drinking wine, and could even drive a car. They bought him as a pet when he was just three days old, and raised him like a human. Travis the Chimp was treated like a son by his owners Sandy and Jerry. not much else we can title this one, really.
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