# What's the most dangerous primate besides man? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 14, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-dangerous-primate-besides-man/352609 "2006-04-14T01:42:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-dangerous-primate-besides-man/352609/21 "2006-04-14T21:31:33Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] …and we share _how much_ of our genetic material with these viscious little bastards? 98%? [/QUOTE] Well the story is a little vague, but given his injuries it seems the chimps weren’t satisfied with only 98% of Mr. St. James Davis genetic material. Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-dangerous-primate-besides-man/352609/22 "2006-04-14T22:39:00Z")
Haven’t you always wanted a monkey? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-dangerous-primate-besides-man/352609/23 "2006-04-14T22:53:05Z")
[QUOTE=kimera] Chimps will eat human babies. [/QUOTE] Cite please. I am no expect, but this sounds unlikely. Jim ---
**Author:** ![kimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f0a364/32.png) [@kimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimera)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-dangerous-primate-besides-man/352609/24 "2006-04-14T23:04:26Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Cite please. [/QUOTE] [Here](http://mahale.web.infoseek.co.jp/PAN/9_2/9(2)-06.html) and [here](http://www.igorilla.com/gorilla/animal/2004/monkeys-attack0human-babies.html) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-dangerous-primate-besides-man/352609/25 "2006-04-14T23:10:04Z")
[QUOTE=kimera] [Here](http://mahale.web.infoseek.co.jp/PAN/9_2/9(2)-06.html) and [here](http://www.igorilla.com/gorilla/animal/2004/monkeys-attack0human-babies.html) [/QUOTE] Thanks for the cites. I never would have guessed. Consider ignorance beated. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-dangerous-primate-besides-man/352609/26 "2006-04-15T02:47:47Z")
Frodo? _Frodo?_ Moses and Aaron on a stick. > [@article](#): > > By the time help was summoned and the chimp was chased away by a man armed with a spear the baby’s nose and upper lip had been eaten away. He died a week later. > > Dr Gavin said the technique used by the chimps to kill or maim the children mirrored the way they tore apart other prey, suggesting they snatched the human young to eat. > > “In most cases they bite off the limbs first before disemboweling them, just as they would the red colobus monkey which is one of their favourite prey,” he said. The same injuries, face and limbs as Mr. St James Davis. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-dangerous-primate-besides-man/352609/27 "2006-04-15T17:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Frodo? _Frodo?_ Moses and Aaron on a stick. [/QUOTE] Obviously the Ring finally got to him, and he went the way of Gollum. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-dangerous-primate-besides-man/352609/28 "2006-04-15T18:58:16Z")
I used to bite the face off my animal crackers so they couldn’t bite me back, and the legs so they couldn’t run away. Were the chimps going to eat Mr. St. Jamrs like the children or is that just the best way for Cheeta to kill something? Makes me wonder not only about the too often mentioned Grizzlies and yummy kids at the Zoo, but those Chimps throwing things at folks. Do they just want to hit someone with fecal matter, or are they hungry? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-dangerous-primate-besides-man/352609/29 "2006-04-15T18:58:22Z")
[QUOTE=Lemur866] Makes shivers run down your spine, doesn’t it? If those teeth can gnaw through a bamboo stem, think what they’d do to your liver. [/QUOTE] Reminds me of that infamous cannibal, **Hannibal LecLemur**. He enjoyed his livers with some fava beans and a nice chianti. 😉 I’m not sure I’d want to be trapped with any primate. Body size is rarely an indicator of physical ferocity. For one thing, apparently there are 865 **other** Lemurs who’ve got your back. That frightens me. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-dangerous-primate-besides-man/352609/30 "2006-04-15T19:11:08Z")
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