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Showing posts with label chimpanzees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chimpanzees. Show all posts
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Siebert theorizes that domesticated chimps are prone to psychological problems, "Wild chimps “recruited” by poachers for entertainment watch as their mothers are gunned down — the only way a chimp mother would ever relinquish a child.
Chimps born in captivity are spared that experience, but they suffer the same premature separation from their mothers, isolation from their normal social groups and often mistreatment from trainers and keepers, all traumatic events that have been shown to cause deep psychological scarring and, as in human beings, can lead an animal to overreact to the slightest stimuli."
He recounts the heartbreaking tale of Lucy, raised from infancy to age 10 as if she were a human child. When she reached sexual maturity and became difficult to handle, her "parents" sent her to a place that was the complete opposite of what she knew, a refuge that reintroduces captive chimps into the wild. Lucy refused to socialize with the other chimps, to climb trees, forage for food, make nests. She took to waiting beneath trees for the others’ crumbs to fall. Eventually, Lucy’s skeleton was found near the shores of the island refuge.
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Another inappropriate pet goes bad
The chimpanzee, named Travis, who had appeared in television commercials, was shot and killed by an officer when he charged the police and cornered that officer in his cruiser, the police said.
The injured woman was hospitalized late Monday in very serious condition at Stamford Hospital. Her identity was not released.
Stamford police Capt. Richard Conklin said the woman was getting out of her car in front of her friend’s house when Travis attacked for no apparent reason.
Sandra Herold, the owner of the 15-year-old chimpanzee, wrestled with the animal as it mauled her friend, then ran inside to call 911.
“She retrieved a large butcher knife and stabbed her longtime pet numerous times in an effort to save her friend, who was really being brutally attacked,” Captain Conklin said.
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Photo: Associated Press Photo of Travis in 2003
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Baby Chimps Given Human Love Are Smarter
When the chimps were nine months old, they took an IQ test normally used to evaluate human infant development. The chimps who had received responsive care aced the test, even surpassing the scores of average human infants tested at the same age.
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