killer chimps. I'm not making this up

[Bondo_Red]

Interesting little show was on on the discovery channel or national geographic channel the other day.I forget which.Apparently chimpanzees are naturally aggressive and hostile creatures,and have been known to attack and eat humans in some parts of the world.Their main diet consists of plants,but if they find an oppurtunity they will eat meat.This was proven to me beyond a doubt when a clip rolled of two chimps chasing a lemur,ripping it in half,and then selectively stripping the body of meat with their fingernails.It was similar to watching a fruit being peeled.Then there were people who were covered in scars and missing fingers and toes who had been mauled by chimps.I'm not a hunter myself,so I was just wondering the general reaction of the hunting community to this news,or if they already knew about it.

 

[zinj]

I don't think it is very widely known. Even the African hunting grounds aren't in chimp habitat.

 

[Heavy Metal Hero]

I have always wanted to shoot a monkey.

 

[usa1993]

Same here, I'd pop one for sure......

 

[pdowg881]

I've seen a lot of videos and documentaries over the years about chimps attacking humans and doing pretty severe damage. I just don't think it's well known because most people think chimps are always playful animals that dance to accordians while they wear little suits and eat bannanas.

 

[buck460XVR]

Chimps and Monkeys altho similar are two different animals......kinda like a shotgun and a revolver are somewhat similar, but still very different.

A monkey (eg baboon, macaque, tamarin) has a tail. A chimpanzee, which is an ape, does not have a tail

Other types of apes are: gorillas, orangutans and gibbons.

baboons(a monkey) are also noted for munching on human flesh when readily available......

 

[McCall911]

I've heard for years that true chimpanzees (not the bonobos which are usually seen on TV, etc.) are extremely vicious creatures which have been known to go so far as to carry off human babies and kill them for pleasure.

I don't know how true this is, but it's what I've heard.

 

[jahwarrior]

Damn Dirty Apes!!!!

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

Monkey's running wild in Florida. I know a guy that used to go boating on the Oklawaka river in Fl. near Silver Springs (where they filmed the first Tarzan movies). He always carried a sidearm as the monkey's would jump on his boat demanding food. He said they were very aggressive and had teeth that you would have to see to believe. Every so often the game and fish commission have "secret" hunts at night to kill off these bad boys. Kinda makes my trigger finger itchy.

Now if we could just get rid of those darn dillas.

 

[RyanM]

There've been several threads about a guy being attacked by chimps a few years back. They tore out his eyes and most of his face, tore off his hands and feet, and also his c*j*n*s. Or something like that. It was extremely bad, and he nearly died.

The chimps you see on TV are very young ones. A full grown male chimp is 180 pounds of pure muscle and rage. In the wild, opposing tribes of chimps basically do to each other what they did to the aforementioned guy. Tear off face, hands, feet, and genitals, and then leave them to die of exposure.

 

[Vern Humphrey]

It isn't politically correct to say chimps are aggressive, but they are. I don't know that they should be considered game, given their declining numbers, but I do note that Jane Goodall, who lived most of her life amongst them, designed a cage when her little boy was born -- for the boy, lest the chimps carry him off.

 

[torpid]

Chimps and Monkeys altho similar are two different animals......kinda like a shotgun and a revolver are somewhat similar, but still very different.

A monkey (eg baboon, macaque, tamarin) has a tail. A chimpanzee, which is an ape, does not have a tail

Other types of apes are: gorillas, orangutans and gibbons.

baboons(a monkey) are also noted for munching on human flesh when readily available......

Hee, the same folks calling chimps monkeys would likely correct an "ignorant" person for calling a magazine a "clip".

 

[6_gunner]

I believe Kipling wrote a short story about a man who had a pet chimp that ended up killing his wife out of jealousy.
It seems like it was a chimp, but it might have been a baboon or an orangutan. Definitely one of those monkey/ape-type creatures.
Anyway...excellent, though creepy story. Anybody else read it?

 

[Double Naught Spy]

In the 1960s, intergroup aggression was thought to be an almost exclusively human trait. That all changed by the mid 80s with Jane Goodall documented intergroup aggression among various chimps. Subsequent studies found such attacks could be done individually, but were often done in whole groups, including the use of weaponry such as sticks and rocks (not terribly common, but opportunistic). Come to find out, chimps will sometimes pack hunt smaller game, or defend against a predator as a single entity pack. No doubt if a human is perceived as a threat, the human would suffer the same downfalls as are suffered by other animals that threaten chimp groups. Humans are in no way special in the animal kingdom in that other animals don't give us particularly special treatment just because we are humans.

I was trying to recall what one of the local zookeepers said about chimpanzees. I may be slightly off, but it was something like, "The have the intellect of a human 7 or 8 year old child, the maturity of a 3-4 year old, and the strength of an NFL linebacker...about 3-4 times that of a human of comparable weight."

 

[Firehand]

He never dealt with chimps, but Peter Capstick wrote a couple of pieces about baboons; long history of attacks on humans. But, like chimps, any stories about it were just 'bush stories' not to be believed. At least outside the areas where they deal with them.

 

[BayouTeche77]

I've seen some of those documentaries where they show the end results from two males fighting for dominance and its pretty ugly. I could imagine what would happen when a human gets on the wrong side of one of these creatures.

Just a little tidbit. Back in the late '50s and early '60s there was a lot of oil drilling in a very remote location in Louisiana. Some of the guys out there had a few mating pairs of macaques (those little high-strung mokeys) that were released for some reason or another. I have no idea what they eat out there but there is now a small group of them, they can be heard sometimes from the roads that pass through the wooded areas. I've seen them only once, and not surprisingly, my first thought was of how cool a mount I could get with a couple of those little critters. I may need to contact the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries about season dates and daily limits

 

[Rembrandt]

Let's not forget what those "damn dirty apes" did to Chuck....

 

[Bondo_Red]

actually jane goodall lived with gorillas.Gorillas are much different.They like kittens.the show also said that chimps attack mainly males and go straight for the balls,usually ripping them off.Also they chimps have taken babies,but not for the hell of it,they eat them for nourishment.there was one on baboons a day earlier.They take babies because often times their own young die in the wild ,so they take human ones as replacement.I forget where but somewhere it africa you can shoot baboons on sight.

 

[torpid]

actually jane goodall lived with gorillas

Actually it was Dian Fossey.

 

[Bondo_Red]

really?Than who was Jane Goodall living with?

 

[Mannix]

I saw the documentary, it was on the Discovery Channel. I believe they talked about a particularly dangerous chimp named Frodo who has killed a few people(and is still out there), on one occasion he jumped down from the trees, grabbed a baby off the mother's back, crushed it's skull, and began eating it.

Also, chimps are alot stronger than humans, so if you do get in to a situation, A.) Shoot to kill, or B.) Play dead and hope you aren't playing in a few minutes.

What should be pointed out is that since we are larger than chimps, 99.9% of them will not attack us unless provoked. It's very rare that a chimps attacks a human, and even rarer that it's out of anything but what what perceive as a threat to them or theirs.

really?Than who was Jane Goodall living with?

Chimps, in the same area where some of the shooting took place for this show. Oddly enough it's also the first place where chimps were described as "demonic". She's also the same person who named Frodo, along with many chimps living in the area.

 

[TimboKhan]

As noted earlier, Jane Goodall lived with and studied Chimps. A tad off topic, but as a fan of the Far Side, Gary Larson noted in one of the books that a cartoon he had drawn relating to chimps and Jane Goodall evidently PO'd National Geopgraphic, although Jane Goodall herself came out and said she thought it was funny.

Gorillas are much different.They like kittens

Dude, Gorillas are not like kittens, unless by kitten you mean a 400 pound beast with the strength of 2 or 3 men. While I certainly wouldn't say that gorillas go out of their way to be aggressive, they will definitely settle your hash should you ever have the occasion to anger one.

 

[SniperStraz]

This is one of the funniest threads I've read in a while, but I'm afraid the mods will probably close it soon. It has nothing to do with anything THR. Great post though.

 

[ZeSpectre]

He didn't say they ARE like kittens, he said they DO like kittens (reference to Koko the "signing" gorilla)

I like this Gary Larsen reference

In 1988, cartoonist Gary Larson visited Gombe National Park and was attacked by Frodo, a chimp described by Goodall as a "bully." Larson escaped with cuts and bruises. Frodo was born in 1976, named and studied by Jane Goodall, who often noted Frodo being prone to angry fits of rage.

 

[buck460XVR]

Hee, the same folks calling chimps monkeys would likely correct an "ignorant" person for calling a magazine a "clip".

guess that's the difference between being ignorant and just plain stupid.