When chimps attack!

[spidey]

Anybody been reading about that guy in Washington State who was attacked by two adult male chimps while visiting a chimp sanctuary?

Adult chimpanzies are 8 times as strong as an adult male human and blindingly fast.

In the space of 30 seconds or so, this guy lost all his fingers, one of his feet, one of his nuts, his nose, and at least one cheek. His wife lost a thumb in the attack as well ( I guess she tried to help). The keepers shot the chimps to save the guy's life.

He was visiting another chimp that he and his wife had raised and were forced to give up when the attacks occured. Two male chimps, apparently jealous of the attention given the other chimp, ripped apart the chain link fence separating them from the guy and attacked.

An adult chimp's power and speed must be seen to be believed. They ripped apart a chain link hurrican fence like it was paper.

[decadecadeca]

Damn dirty apes!

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[JUICE]

thats crazy and scary

[Scrumhalf]

Whenever one tries to make a pet out of a species that has not had the temperament adjustment associated wtih thousands of years of domestication, it is a recipe for disaster.

Just because it looks humanoid, it is not a human and just because it is furry it is not a golden retriever. Some people just don't get it.....

[spidey]

Originally posted by Scrumhalf
Whenever one tries to make a pet out of a species that has not had the temperament adjustment associated wtih thousands of years of domestication, it is a recipe for disaster.

Just because it looks humanoid, it is not a human and just because it is furry it is not a golden retriever. Some people just don't get it.....

Not all the chimps in the sanctuary were domesticated. Most were captured as orphans. The two apes that attacked were never domesticated I think. The chimp they were visiting (who was domesticated) did not participate in the attack. They brought him a birthday cake and the other chimps got jealous.

The sanctuary should have had better fences or should have taken more precautions to keep wild chimps from escaping and hurting someone.

[Scrumhalf]

Agreed....

my point is though that one generation of domestication is not enough, in my opinion to fundamentally change the temperament of any species. A chimp captured as a baby and raised with humans may seem domesticated but I think the wild nature of the beast is right beneath the surface.

Look at dogs - the species has had millenia of domestication but there are still instances where wild behavior comes out....

Anyone who has a wild animal as a pet - whether it is a chimanzee or a cheetah or some other exotic animal is asking for trouble in my opinion - maybe 99.99% of the time everything is ok but if something manages to tear away the veneer of domestication at the surface, the results aren't pretty.... this chimp story, Siegfried and Roy, etc. etc.

[spidey]

Agreed.

I would list large boas and pythons in that catagory too. More than one person has been killed by his own snake. Anyone who owns a 12 ft or better snake is taking a real risk because if that snake decided to, there isn't shit you or any five of your friends could do about it.

I remember a story from last year sometime about a guy who was killed trying to feed his 16 ft burmese python. The snake grabbed him instead and 6 of his friends could not pull it off of him before it killed him.

[decadecadeca]

None of them had a pocket knife, kitchen knife, machete, pistol etc....?

If the snake wrapped completely around me so fast I couldn't reach the Spyderco in my front pocket I would be surprised. But for six grown men to stand around while a buddy was squeezed to death? WTF? Did they just try to pull it off like morons because they didn't want to kill it?

[jipped genes]

thats crazy! amazing how a 100# chimp has the strength of 2 men

[Puddles]

Originally posted by decadecadeca
None of them had a pocket knife, kitchen knife, machete, pistol etc....?

If the snake wrapped completely around me so fast I couldn't reach the Spyderco in my front pocket I would be surprised. But for six grown men to stand around while a buddy was squeezed to death? WTF? Did they just try to pull it off like morons because they didn't want to kill it?

You can't cut a snake easilly. We had one in our garage and tried to kill it with pruning sheers and they would not slice through the creature. This was a small snake too.