Vernon Reynolds, a biological anthropologist at the University of Oxford, and author of The Chimpanzees of Budongo Forest, says he is aware of a few past incidents around Kasowka Forest in Uganda in which chimps have attacked humans after losing much of their food supply to farming. There is an ongoing surge in human population in the area, he says, and wherever the park’s land is illegally used for farming, park authorities are obliged to uphold laws to protect it.Įven if the chimp attacks subside, they may well erupt again in future because of the ongoing pressure from humans. Bodycam footage captured the moment a sheriff's deputy fatally shoot a chimpanzee in the head after the animal, which was being kept as a pet, escaped its cage and attacked its owner's daughter. “Human-wildlife conflict is an extremely serious issue in Virunga, as it is across Africa and elsewhere,” says Emmanuel de Merode, chief warden at Virunga. Experts observing dozens of chimps at Loango National Park in Gabon.
He gouged her eyes, leaving her without sight for the rest of her life, and tore off her eyelids, nose, jaw, lips and most of her scalp. Reports of the scale and number of attacks are probably exaggerated, says Richard Wrangham of Harvard University, but he concedes that there has been an increase in tension between humans and chimps in that corner of the DRC – although only in areas where chimp habitat has been lost. CNN Chimpanzees ’ lethal attacks on gorillas in the wild have been observed for the first time, a team of researchers has said. The chimpanzee viciously broke nearly all of Charla bones in her face, removed one of her hands and very nearly all of the other. “It may be a more general sign of mistrust and antagonism, which is regularly seen in chimp sanctuaries and other captive facilities,” he says. Klaus Zuberbuhler, a psychologist at the University of St Andrews in Fife, UK, and scientific director of the Budongo Conservation Field Station in Uganda, says restricting the chimps’ habitat can certainly affect their behaviour, though it is debatable whether the chimps’ aggression towards humans is a form of revenge.
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