Chimpanzees

On Monday, Travis, a chimpanzee of fourteen years, was killed after mauling his owner's friend, Charla Nash. Travis had been acting strange for the majority of the day. And when Nash came to the house that day, something triggered him to physically attack her. A 200-pound chimpanzee isn't exactly the easiest type of animal to get off of you when it's raged, and already in the process of attacking you. The owner Sandra Herold, in protection of her friend, started to stab the chimp repeatedly. Nothing seemed to work. Travis was beaten with a shovel, and when the police came with help, Travis ran away from the scene. Later on, Travis returned and started to attack a police officer in his own car. Travis was shot multiple times, and he fled into to woods. Afterwards, Travis was tracked, police folled a blood-track, to his living area and was found dead.
Chimpanzees shouldn't be kept as pet's or thought of as children. They belong in their natural habitat with their family. When they are taken out of their own environment, they can never be taken back because the other chimps will neglect them. Any chimpanzees you see in movies, commercials, anything else used for entertainment purposes, are beaten, kicked, shocked, and are put in terrable living quarters.






::http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=anjelica_huston&Player=wm (video)
::http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/nyregion/18chimp.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=chimpanzees&st=cse
::http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/02/rip_travis.php