#Chimpanzee attack video archive#

Watch wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin talk about the dangers of chimps »Ĭonklin added that his department is not used to dealing with cases such as this, and they were trying to familiarize themselves with laws and regulations before deciding if charges will be filed.Ĭonklin said this isn't the first interaction his officers have had with Travis. He did not know if the animal had been prescribed the medicine or if Herold had ever given her pet such a mixture before. Conklin said the chimp had been acting 'rambunctious' earlier, prompting Herold to put Xanax in a cup of tea for him to drink. Animals often do not exhibit symptoms of Lyme disease, caused by the bite of certain types of ticks, although aggression is a possible symptom, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Ĭonklin said Nash had recently gotten a haircut that changed her appearance significantly. Conklin estimated that Travis weighed close to 200 pounds.Ĭonklin couldn't confirm media reports that the chimp had Lyme disease, though he did say investigators were taking their time with the case to determine what may have provoked Travis to attack Nash. Travis returned to the house, where police found him dead. Woman's life in danger after chimp attackĪ Stamford police officer later shot the chimp multiple times after the primate went after him inside a police cruiser, Conklin said.WFSB: Chilling chimp attack 911 call released.Neither fazed Travis, who police said had been like a child to Herold. She then called 911 before stabbing the chimp with a butcher knife and hitting him with a shovel. While her friend was being attacked, Herold was unable to pull the primate off. Herold had called Nash to her house to help get 14-year-old Travis back inside after he used a key to escape. Conklin said the attack was unprovoked, but he described it as 'brutal and lengthy.' Watch how owner made frantic call to police » Nash had just arrived at Herold's house when Travis jumped on her and began biting and mauling her, causing serious injuries to her face, neck and hands, according to Stamford Police Capt. The victim, Charla Nash, 55, remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after the chimp, once featured in television commercials for Coca-Cola and Old Navy, attacked her Monday afternoon, police said. With the chimp squealing in the background, Herold cries out, 'He's killed my friend!' Additional data related to this paper may be requested from the authors.'He's ripping her apart,' Sandra Herold, 70, tells dispatchers about her pet, Travis. Data and materials availability: All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Captivated by the insane and devastating story, Barstool Sports' Eddie and M. reviewed the manuscript and supervised the research conducted in Japan and Guinea. In 2009, a male chimpanzee named Travis mauled his owner's friend, Charla Nash. provided project oversight, supervised the research, and prepared the manuscript. provided annotations for training, and A.N.

analyzed the data and prepared the manuscript. Author contributions: D.S., A.N., and A.Z. is funded by MEXT-JSPS (#16H06283) and LGP-U04, as well as the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Core-to-Core Program CCSN. is funded by the Leverhulme Trust (PLP-2016-114). is funded by the Clarendon Fund, Boise Trust Fund, and Wolfson College, University of Oxford. is funded by a Google PhD fellowship in machine perception, speech technology, and computer vision. Funding: This work is supported by the EPSRC program grant Seebibyte: Visual Search for the Era of Big Data (EP/M013774/1), and the Cooperative Research Program of Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University. All research conducted conforms to the ethics guidelines set by the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Video data of wild chimpanzees collected in Guinea was noninvasive and approved by the ethics committee at the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University. Charla Nash in 2008, just before the gruesome attack Credit: AP:Associated Press. Travis lived with the couple until 2009 when officers responded to a frantic 911 call saying that a monkey was attacking a woman. This study marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of Bossou’s outdoor laboratory and is dedicated to the researchers who have collected data there since 1988. TRAVIS the chimpanzee was adopted at the age of three by a young Connecticut couple who happily paid 50k for the animal in 1998.

#Chimpanzee attack video archive#

We are grateful to Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute for leading the Bossou Archive Project and supporting the research presented here, and to IREB and DNRST of the Republic of Guinea.