Travis and Mrs. Herold in 2003.
Herold was able to coax Travis back to the house and she gave him some
Chimps are not nice, cute little monkeys. They are powerful, intelligent, dangerous apes.
The WILL rip your face off if they get a chance.
The whole story is just sad to me for the people injured and the chimp. The chimp belonged in an animal sanctuary or zoo.
I know these stories are not funny—people have been badly injured, but I still laugh about this comment back in 2005. This was the case in CA where the couple took a cake to a sanctuary for their chimp’s birthday and ended up being badly attacked by 2 other chimps:
Woman attacked by chimp speaks of the attack
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1357031/posts
Bon mots wrote:
Next year, I think they should just send a card.
But he was such a good boy...
somehow the imagery of the ‘One’ comes to mind...
What really worries me are the idiots that keep poisonous snakes. Just wait until a pregnant black mamba or Russell's viper or cobra gets loose in the Everglades.
-ccm
200 pounds! Whoa.
Hamlet, who has become the island's head male, took a dislike for one of the island's anti poaching security force members.
Exactly why Hamlet, who is still a juvenile, went after the security force member, was a mystery.
After waiting for the security man to be alone, Hamlet first sinks the man's patrol boat, so that he couldn't escape in it, then ambushes the guy, biting and breaking his foot so that he couldn't;t escape by running either, and then proceeds to brutalize the guy until his screaming attracted the attention of other workers and camera men. Luckily, the security man lived. But the brutal attack caused a great deal of concern among the island's people.
Whatever Hamlet's motivation for attacking the man was, the attack was cunning and brutal, and there was almost a decision to relocate Hamlet to a more isolated part of the jungle.
Had they decided to move Hamlet, I have to wonder just how successful such a move would have been, for during the show's 2 years, Hamlet has repeatedly shown his resourcefulness and intelligence, figuring out ways to bypass an electrical fence, and crossing substantial water barriers, despite not being able to swim. I was even left wondering if the desire for a boat ride, and anger after being refused, may have prompted Hamlet's attack...
Having a chimp as a “pet”
Giving the thing a human name “Travis”
Saying the thing was “misbehaving”
The problem is the idiot human that had demented fantasies about this thing being just like a human.
Otherwise normal people lose their minds when they see a chimp and try their best to see it as a human.
It’s really about seeing humans as just the same as animals, not something superior.
Another problem is the idiot who wrote the article, constantly calling it “Travis”, and “he”, instead of “it”
I expect the animal rights wackos will call for the prosecution of the cop.
Liberalism is an incurable mental disease.
As Rush said, “A tiger is a tiger”.
Chimps scare the hell out of me. They are so strong, quick and have fangs like a German Shepard.And when I say strong I mean like a 200# chimp benching a 1000# strong.No human is as strong as they are pound for pound.