Hartford - The failure of Connecticut environmental protection officials to act on a biologist’s warning that a 200-pound chimpanzee posed a threat in Stamford highlights both a communications problem and a lack of expertise in exotic animals at the
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Baby chimpanzee arrives at Southwick’s Zoo - MetroWest Daily News
A chimpanzee born March 6 at Southwick’s Zoo, one of the first born in captivity in New England, is happy and healthy, said Betsey Brewer, whose family owns the zoo. Brewer thinks there have been few baby chimps born in New England since few zoos in
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Deputy shoots, kills loose chimpanzee - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Winston, Mo. A chimpanzee was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy when the animal opened the door to the deputy’s patrol car, grabbed his leg and tried to hit him, the Daviess County sheriff’s office said Wednesday. It happened Monday outside
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WINSTON, Mo. (AP) - Three people are charged with animal abuse and neglect after authorities - responding to a call about an agitated chimpanzee - discovered more than 100 dogs in squalid conditions in northwest Missouri. The Daviess County Sheriff’s

Adolescent chimpanzee dies at Lincoln Park Zoo - 13 WREX-TV
CHICAGO (AP) - Authorities at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo say an adolescent male chimpanzee has died of pneumonia after a mysterious upper respiratory infection struck all seven members of the group he lived with. Kipper, a 9-year-old and the youngest