Chimp Attack Connecticut

Chimp's owner begged police to stop attack in frantic 911 call (Baltimore Sun)

Victim of chimp attack remains in critical condition with major injuries to face, hands The frantic owner of a 200-pound chimpanzee that went berserk in Connecticut pleaded with police over the phone to help her stop the animal from mauling her friend, begging them to "Hurry, please! He ripped her face off."

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Chimp Attack Victim in Cleveland Clinic (FOX 5 New York)

A Connecticut woman critically injured this week by a rampaging chimpanzee has been transferred to the Cleveland Clinic, which two months ago performed the nation's first face transplant. Charla Nash was being evaluated Thursday evening. Meantime, bizarre new details came out about the relationship between Travis the chimp and its owner. (Fox 5's Lisa Evers reports. Click on the video player, ...

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Medics describe horror of Conn. chimp attack (Boston Globe)

As an emergency medical worker, Bill Ackley responded to airplane crashes and the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. But he and his partner couldn't believe the carnage of a woman who was mauled this week by a chimpanzee in Connecticut.

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Atlanta woman says Connecticut chimp bit her in 1996 (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

The same 200-pound chimp who was fatally shot this week after a vicious attack on his owner's friend also bit a woman in 1996, the woman said in an interview broadcast Thursday. The woman, Leslie Mostel-Paul, said Travis the chimp bit her hand and tried to pull her into a vehicle as she greeted him. She said she complained to the chimp's owner and to police. Travis was killed Monday after ...

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You Had Us At Chimp Attack (Columbia Journalism Review)

That chimp attack in Connecticut? Startling, upsetting story, to say the least.

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