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Travis (October 21, 1995 – February 16, 2009) was a male chimpanzee who was raised by and lived with a human family. On February 16, 2009, he attacked and mauled his owner Sandra Herold's friend, Charla Nash, in Stamford, Connecticut, blinding her, severing several body parts, and lacerating her face, before he was shot and killed by responding Officer Frank Chiafari.
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 ...
J. Fred Muggs (born March 14, 1952) is a chimpanzee born in the African colony of French Cameroon that forms part of modern-day Cameroon.Brought to New York City before his first birthday, he was bought by two former NBC pages and eventually appeared on a host of television shows on that network including NBC's Today Show where he served as mascot from 1953 to 1957.
Chimp Haven was founded in 1995 to meet the need for long-term chimpanzee care for chimps formerly used in biomedical research. The first chimpanzees arrived at Chimp Haven in 2005.
The baby’s mom, Alice, gave birth to the newborn Dec. 29 “in front of astonished zoo visitors,” the zoo said in a Feb. 6 news release. Alice had an eight-month pregnancy.
The Sedgwick County Zoo announced the cause of death of their 5-week-old chimp, Kucheza, who was found dead last week by zoo keepers, the zoo said in a Facebook post.
The chimpanzee's body is covered with coarse black hair, except for the face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands, and soles of the feet. Both of its thumbs and its big toes are opposable, allowing a precision grip. Like most chimpanzee populations, the eastern chimpanzees have amber to brown irises and dark sclerae. Habitat
Sitting on almost 200 acres near Shreveport, Louisiana, is Chimp Haven — a place where chimpanzees once used in research go to "retire." Most of the more than 300 hairy residents served as ...