
Chim Attack Davis St. James
Warning, attached photo may be gruesome for some. We know about the current story of the Chim attack here: Source 3 but there was another one that had a similar outcome some years ago. Check this:
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Ferocity of chimpanzee attack stuns medics, leaves questions By David Pierson and Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times | March 6, 2005 HAVILAH, Calif. -- St. James and LaDonna Davis raised Moe the chimp as their son. That was the word they used to describe him, and that was how they treated him -- like a hairy, rambunctious child who was a pampered member of the family. They taught him to wear clothes, to take showers, to use the toilet, and to watch television in their West Covina, Calif., home. On Thursday, the day they marked as Moe's 39th birthday, their love for the chimp nearly cost them their lives. The Davises were visiting Moe at an animal sanctuary in the hills of eastern Kern County -- a place to which he had been banished after biting a woman -- when they were attacked by two other chimps and brutally mauled. St. James Davis took the brunt of the attack, the ferocity of which left paramedics stunned. ''I had no idea a chimpanzee was capable of doing that to a human," said Kern County Fire Captain Curt Merrell, who was on the scene. Davis, who remained in critical condition Friday, was badly disfigured. According to his wife, he lost all the fingers from both hands, an eye, part of his nose, cheek and lips, and part of his buttocks. His foot was mutilated and his heel bone was cracked. |
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Chimpanzees come across to the public as little darlings, often in diapers and always willing to hold hands. But they"re really aggressors, primate experts say, more than capable of carrying out attacks as violent as one that left a man fighting for his life. Generally weighing between 120 and 150 pounds with strength much greater than man, chimps in the wild are known to kill chimps from neighboring groups, hunt other primates and even attack humans. |
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