A canny chimpanzee who calmly collected a stash of rocks and then hurled them at zoo visitors in fits of rage has confirmed that apes can plan ahead just like humans, a Swedish study said Monday. Santino the chimpanzee's anti-social behavior stunned both visitors and keepers at the Furuvik Zoo but fascinated researchers because it was so carefully prepared.
The brutality of the attack was beyond horrifying. Travis, the chimpanzee that had starred in Old Navy TV ads and lived with Sandra Herold more as a son than a pet, was savagely mauling the face of Herold’s friend, Charla Nash, inflicting grave injuries. In her desperation, Herold had no choice but to stab Travis with a chef’s knife.
In the wake of a brutal attack by a pet chimpanzee on a Connecticut woman, people are asking what went wrong. But that, a wildlife expert says, is the wrong question.
A 42-year-old chimpanzee who is toilet-trained and can eat with a knife and fork is believed to be at large in a Southern California forest after escaping his cage.
Three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame have gone to the dogs, so why can't Cheeta the chimp get some love? The animal actor, whose credits include the 1967 comedy "Dr. Doolittle" and the "Tarzan" movies, is trying for the seventh time to get a sidewalk star and become the first monkey to get the honor. His handlers have launched an online petition to get supporters to urge the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to give him a star in 2009.
A chimpanzee cannot be declared a person, Austria's Supreme Court has ruled, activists said Tuesday. An animal rights group had sought to have the chimp, Matthew Hiasl Pan, declared a person in hopes of gaining guardianship of the animal.
Austria's Supreme Court has dashed hopes by animal rights activists to have a chimpanzee declared a person, a statement suggested Tuesday.
Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.
He's now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria's Supreme Court after a lower court threw out their latest appeal.
In some ways, Hiasl is like any other Viennese: He indulges a weakness for pastry, likes to paint and enjoys chilling out watching TV. But he doesn't care for coffee, and he isn't actually a person — at least not yet.
We all know not to feed the animals that when visiting the zoo. Now the Antwerp Zoo has urged visitors to, please, stop staring at the chimpanzees.
In a mysterious bit of monkey business, a female at a chimpanzee sanctuary has given birth, despite the fact that the facility's entire male chimp population has had vasectomies.
Cheeta the chimp, star of a dozen "Tarzan" movies in the 1930s and 1940s, celebrated his 74th birthday with sugar-free cake.
- Hospital officials in Ohio say a Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee two weeks ago lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and suffering brain damage.
Travis the chimp has been in the spotlight for years. Whether it was in Old Navy or Coca Cola commercials, Travis has been a friendly face on TV for many. What we didn't know was that Travis was going to be getting much more media attention.
The 2 percent genetic difference between us and primates is comprised mainly of muscle and insanity. Hollywood has made its own case for why we should fear the furry ones.
"There is no reason for any private citizen to keep a primate as a pet, and this trade is driven by unscrupulous dealers who sell primates across state lines for thousands of dollars," said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of The HSUS.
After the controversial NY Post cartoon, it seems fitting to tackle this issue...
I've made a fine fool of myself today. This dawned on me - finally - as I sat at the laundromat.
I'm just generally perplexed as to what is this guy's [Delonas'] thought process for what he thinks is funny. [...] This is a what-you-did issue, not a who-you-are issue. [...]
It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill. Period. But it has been taken as something else - as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism.
From Article: The Davises are like any other family, only instead of a son, they raised a chimpanzee. As with Travis, the chimp that attacked a woman in Connecticut on Monday, for years everything seemed fine.
Well, yes, it would require quite a contortion to find that Rupert Murdoch's New York Post had not compared the first black president to a monkey in an editorial cartoon.
Recently, all hell broke loose as the result of an editorial cartoon in the New York Post.
When first seen I got the impression the 2 cops had done away with GWB, the "Chimp", some 8 years tardy, but on 2nd look it was seen the Chimp on the ground was to represent the "Chump" currently living at 1600.
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column presents a thought experiment of sorts. Read the column while you listen to a real time animal attack unfold...
Sandra Herold, owner of the chimp that had formerly starred in Old Navy TV ads but brutally attacked her best friend, described having to stab a pet that was more like a son to her: "He looked at me like, 'Mom, what did you do?' "
The chilling screams of a crazed chimp mauling a Connecticut woman were captured on a 911 tape - along with the animal's owner begging, "Send police with guns!"
Cops shot dead a rampaging celebrity chimp after he bit off a woman's hands and destroyed her face.
The owner of a chimpanzee that violently mauled a family friend at a Stamford home Monday claims the animal was suffering from Lyme disease.
A 90-kilogram chimpanzee kept as a pet and once used in TV commercials was shot and killed by police in the US after it mauled a woman and later cornered a policeman in his vehicle, authorities said.
Forsyth, Georgia, Anonymous Email My revision of an email Chimp story to lighten up your day! Once upon a time a merchant man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each. Since the the villagers knew that there were many monkeys aro …
Dorothy had so many qualities... this article has so many interesting tales and facets of her behavior, her life...
All the Chimps Watch with Such Somber Sorrow at Dorothy's Wake... A picture is worth a thousand words...
Dodging tranquillizer darts and yelping at his captors, a brazen chimp staged his own version of The Great Escape.