BTW “their” chimp “Moe” was not involved in the attack at all. It was two younger 13 and 16 year old male chimps that were watching him get fed.
The most EXTREME chamber EVER in the HISTORY of MANKIND!!!
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If I ever have my balls and my nose chewed off; save the balls first! I’d rather have a prosthetic nose than Neuticles.
In fairness (as already mentioned…I believe), their chimp was in no way involved. Four chimps escaped somehow (probably someone left a door open) and the two males in the group went for this poor guy. The females ran for the hills…literally. The males were shot, but the females were found later and returned to the sanctuary. *
*I know I shouldn’t think it’s adorable…for a bunch of reasons, but the female monkeys rode in the front seat of beat up pick up trucks…it looked cute.
[nitpick] They’re not monkeys. They don’t have tails. They’re apes.[/nitpicl]
I hardly ever agree with PETA, but I think they’re right on this one. I can’t think of any good reason people should be allowed to keep exotic, dangerous animals. In the L.A. area we recently also had a case of an escaped pet tiger, which had to be killed in the end in the interest of public safety.
I too almost always disagree with PETA, but this time is an exception. I don’t think people should be allowed to keep chimps, tigers, bears, orangutangs, and other animals that can break someone’s back with a love-tap as household pets.
Here is an update–apparently the man tried to “reason” with the chimps. He wasn’t very successful.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/03/07/state/n105102S18.DTL
Just don’t get them confused!