The group, from Osnabrück University and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, published the findings on Monday in the journal Nature. “But then, we heard chest beats, a display characteristic for gorillas, and realized that the chimpanzees had encountered a group of five gorillas,” she added, referencing the first attack the team saw, in 2019. Southern, the study’s lead author, in a press release. “At first, we only noticed screams of chimpanzees and thought we were observing a typical encounter between individuals of neighboring chimpanzee communities,” said Lara M. He needs further reconstruction on his upper lip and a special pair of dentures to help him eat without LaDonna's help.Chimpanzees’ lethal attacks on gorillas in the wild have been observed for the first time, a team of researchers has said.Įxperts observing dozens of chimps at Loango National Park in Gabon had expected them to be relaxed around gorillas.īut while the two species were usually playful, the researchers were surprised to witness occasional vicious attacks.

Once a hulking high school football player and NASCAR driver, Davis has more surgeries on the horizon. We don't say no dogs should live in homes when one is violent.' But there are exceptional circumstances,' said powerhouse civil-rights attorney Gloria Allred, who acts as Davis' advocate. 'Obviously, in most situations, chimps should not be living in homes. Though he still has nightmares and says he'll never own another pet, Davis didn't sue the sanctuary and doesn't support new restrictions on people who wish to keep potentially dangerous wild animals in their homes. It was not Moe who turned on Davis, but rather two other chimpanzees that had escaped their enclosure. Moe was living in the sanctuary on the day of Davis' attack. The locally famous chimp allegedly bit a woman who stuck her finger in his cage in 1999 and had to be removed to an animal sanctuary. Moe, reportedly rescued from poachers in Africa in 1967, even stood as the best man at their wedding.

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