September 22, 2009 – 7:21 pm
We’ve seen in the past that monkeys love to steal food, and drinks (especially alcohol). Here’s a monkey that got frustrated when a tourist didn’t give up some food… and pushed her off the cliff.
A Swedish study found that chimps can plan, citing an attack by a chimp at a zoo:
According to a report in the journal Current Biology, the 31-year-old alpha male started building his weapons cache in the morning before the zoo opened, collecting rocks and knocking out disks from concrete boulders inside his enclosure. He waited [...]
February 18, 2009 – 9:12 pm
Time.com on when chimps attack:
But adult chimpanzees might be better described as superhuman — a 200-lb. chimpanzee is five to seven times stronger than a person of the same size, especially in the upper body. “They are incredibly powerful, and people underestimate that,” says McCann. “An adult male chimpanzee is a formidable animal. I would [...]
February 17, 2009 – 8:57 pm
A chimp apparently being kept as a pet escaped and seriously injured a woman before being shot by police. Travis weighed 200lbs. That’s a lot of chimp to be attacking. Why someone keeps this gigantic animal as a pet is just strange.
Also an interesting tidbit:
In 2005, a different chimp escaped from [...]
