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<\/p>\nThis \n HAVILAH, Calif. — St. James and LaDonna Davis raised Moe the chimp as They taught him to wear clothes, to take showers, to use On Thursday, the day they marked as Moe’s 39th birthday, St. James Davis took the brunt of the attack, the ferocity of which left Davis, who remained in critical condition Friday, was Ape specialist Deborah Fouts, director of the Chimp ”Chimpanzees have a real sense of right and wrong and fairness and unfairness," said Lesson learned: Don’t take cakes to the monkey pen, from the This story just keeps getting grosser and more bizarre with every news cycle. For someone who grew up wanting a chimp like Tarzan’s Chita to replace our largely useless little brother, it is hard to adjust to Chimpanzees as 150-lb … Continue reading
\n story just keeps getting grosser and more bizarre with every news
\n cycle. For someone who grew up wanting a chimp like Tarzan’s Chita to
\n replace
\n our
\n largely useless little brother, it is hard to adjust to Chimpanzees as
\n 150-lb flesh-eating killing machines. At least the latest story from
\n the Los
\n Angeles Times<\/a> hints at a motive…<\/em><\/p>\n
\n their son. That was the word they used to describe him, and that was
\n how they treated him — like a hairy, rambunctious child who was a pampered
\n member of the family.<\/p>\n
\n the toilet, and to watch television in their West Covina, Calif., home. (We wish we could train OUR children to do these things, with the exception of watching TV, which they they can already do like champs)<\/i><\/p>\n
\n their love for the chimp nearly cost them their lives.<\/p>\n
\n paramedics stunned. ”I had no idea a chimpanzee was capable of doing
\n that to a human," said Kern County Fire Captain Curt Merrell, who
\n was on the scene. <\/p>\n
\n badly disfigured. According to his wife, he lost all the fingers from
\n both hands, an eye, part of his nose, cheek and lips, and part of his
\n buttocks. His foot was mutilated and his heel bone was cracked.<\/p>\n
\n and Human Communication Institute at Central Washington University, said
\n the attack may have been prompted by jealousy.<\/p>\n
\n Fouts, a veteran of four decades of work with chimps. ”It sounds like
\n people were showering a lot of attention on Moe, birthday cake and the
\n like. . . . Perhaps the other chimps were jealous of Moe."<\/p>\n
\n unless you have enough for everybody.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Los Angeles Times<\/a> via the Boston Globe<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"