How many more people need to get mutilated or die before we learn that apes don't make good pets? Even the strongest pro-wrestler will cry like a baby within seconds when faced with a chimp half his size.
AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 12.07.2009 | New York
STAMFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut woman who owned a chimpanzee that mauled and blinded a woman won't be charged because there's no evidence she kn...
AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 06.13.2009 | Home
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A chimpanzee that mauled a Connecticut woman had the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in its system, according to toxicology tests, bu...
AP | DAVE COLLINS | Posted 04.17.2009 | Home
STAMFORD, Conn. — The family of a woman mauled by a chimpanzee filed a lawsuit seeking $50 million in damages against the primate's owner, sayin...
AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 04.04.2009 | Home
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee two weeks ago lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and sufferin...
Michael Markarian | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green
The federal government took two major steps today to protect wild animals from cruelty and abuse. The government clearly has a key role to play when it comes to animal conservation.
Stephanie Gertler | Posted 03.27.2009 | Living
Yes, there are animal rights issues concerning Travis the chimp, but what about the issue of Sandra Herold? What about her psyche and emotional state went unnoticed and unexamined?
The Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics
Ben Smith at Politico has the following press release today, regarding new 'primates as pets' legislation being introduced in the aftermath of Travis ...
New York Daily News | Rich Schapiro | Posted 03.24.2009 | Home
The banana doesn't fall far from the tree. Travis, the crazed ape shot dead after chewing off a Connecticut woman's face, suffered the same fate as h...
AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York
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Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 03.22.2009 | Media
It appears that Charla Nash wasn't Travis the Chimp's only victim. Nash now lays in a hospital bed without her eyes, nose and part of her jaw. Leslie...
AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFEREN | Posted 03.21.2009 | Home
STAMFORD, Conn. — As authorities considered criminal charges, the woman whose 200-pound domesticated chimpanzee went berserk and mauled a friend...
Warren Holstein | Posted 03.21.2009 | Comedy
It's an old Hollywood cliché: failed and embittered childhood actor grows up and, no longer embraced by the establishment, acts out by viciously masticating an innocent woman's face...um hold on.
Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 03.21.2009 | Home
Sandra Herold, owner of Travis the chimp, the chimpanzee who was killed by police after mauling a woman and nearly killing her, is speaking out about ...
AP | STEPHANIE REITZ | Posted 03.20.2009 | Home
***UPDATE*** 11:19 pm The Stamford Police have released the frantic 911 call Sandra Herold made after her chimpanzee began his violent rampage. List...
Frans de Waal | Posted 12.07.2009 | Living