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Wasn't there a female that studied chimpanzees
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and was killed in a questionable manner? It was not Jane Goodall.
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Dian Fossy was murdered, she studied gorillas.
Jane Goodall, a British baroness, has studied chimps for more than six decades.
Dian Fossy is correct. Biruté Galdikas studies Oranutans. They and Jane Goodall were sponsored by Louis Leakey.
Was that made into a movie ??? If so was it Gorillas in the Mist. I remember that movie as it was one of the few movies in the beginning where some of the soldiers had early AR10's.
You got it armilite. It was a book first and later (1988) a movie, with Sigorney Weaver.
Over the years working in a zoo, I met Biruté Galdikas and Dian Fossy. Never met Jane Goodall
Some years ago there was a "female" that lived with a chimp? and was her lover and the chimp almost killed the female that visited her one day. That was a weird story.
Yes, there was
Travis (October 21, 1995 – February 16, 2009)[3] was a male common chimpanzee who, as an animal actor, appeared in several television shows and commercials, including spots for Coca-Cola,[4] as well as on television programs including The Maury Povich Show and The Man Show,[5][6] which is disputed.[7] On February 16, 2009, Travis attacked and mauled his owner's friend in Stamford, Connecticut,[8] blinding her, severing several body parts and lacerating her face, before he was shot and killed by a responding police officer.[9]
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Travis was born to Suzy and Coco, who were imported from Africa to the U.S. sometime in the 1970s. He was born near Festus, Missouri on October 21, 1995, at Mike and Connie Braun Casey's compound, currently named the Missouri Chimpanzee Sanctuary. In a separate incident, Suzy was fatally shot following an escape in 2001.[10] Sandra and Jerome Herold purchased Travis for $50,000 from a breeder after he was taken from his mother when he was three days old.[3][11] They named the chimpanzee after Sandra's favorite singer, Travis Tritt.
Travis could open doors using keys, dress himself, water plants, feed hay to his owners' horses, eat at a table with the rest of the family, and drink wine from a stemmed glass; he was so fond of ice cream that he learned the schedules of passing ice cream trucks. He logged onto the computer to look at pictures, watched television using a remote control, and brushed his teeth using a Water Pik.[4][5][15] He enjoyed watching baseball on television.[16] Travis had also driven a car on several occasions.[11]
Sandra Herold regarded Travis almost as a surrogate son and pampered him.[11][13] Sandra slept and bathed with Travis, saying after his death, "I'm, like, hollow now. He slept with me every night. Until you've eaten with a chimp and bathed with a chimp, you don't know a chimp