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[Jimbone]

It's all fun and games until they start throwing poop at you... or gnaw off your friends face.

[ramseycat]

It's all fun and games until they start throwing poop at you... or gnaw off your friends face.

well thanks for ruining my dream of having a monkey.

[Jimbone]

By all means, go ahead and get one. Then you can spank it.

[Donovan]

chimps are great apes, not monkeys.

[username]

Ma is a poi in baby's disappearance.

[Lady Cop]

Associated Press, Friday, June 29
JOHANNESBURG — Chimpanzees at a sanctuary for the animals in eastern South Africa pulled an American working there into their enclosure, bit him severely and dragged him nearly a half mile, according to a paramedic official and local media reports.

The man was leading a tour group at the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden near Nelspruit, some 180 miles from Johannesburg, Thursday when two chimpanzees grabbed his feet and pulled him under a fence into their enclosure, Jeffrey Wicks of the Netcare911 medical emergency services company said in a statement obtained by The Associated Press on Friday.

Mediclinic Nelspruit, the hospital where he was taken, said Friday he was in intensive care in critical condition after undergoing surgery Thursday.

The man had “multiple and severe bite wounds” and was dragged nearly a kilometer by the chimpanzees, Wicks said.

Beeld, a South African newspaper, reported Friday that the man was an American researcher who was giving tourists a lecture at the time of the attack. The tourists were escorted to safety by staff members as the chimpanzees dragged the man out of their enclosure, Beeld reported. The sanctuary’s director fired into the air to scare the chimps away from the man, and then chased the animals back into their enclosure. Beeld reported the man lost part of an ear and parts of his fingers.

[Midwest Spy]

Shit, death by chimp(s) would really fuckin' suck.

[ramseycat]

He looks so innocent.

[Midwest Spy]

For anyone unfamiliar with a previous chimp attack, have a look:

http://www.esquire.com/features/chimpanz...ack-0409-2

[Riotgear]

So here's the deal with chimps - If it's pink I'm going to give it a hug and let it play with my keys. If it's black I'm going to draw my sidearm.

When they're old enough to turn black they like to bite your fingers off and rip off your cock and throw it.

[Lady Cop]

this is the kid who was attacked. Andrew Oberle, was dragged more than a mile by the chimps.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1zCzYjM17

[Ma Huang Sor]

If you are a cell phone user, you are indirectly responsible for gorilla death in the Republic of Congo.

Look up coltan (Columbite-tantalite).

They eat gorillas there. They call it "bush meat."

I saw this post. dont think I missed it.

[Lady Cop]

The chimpanzee was born at a Russian zoo and was taken home by one of the staff after it became clear he had not bonded with his mother. By chance, her 100lb bull mastiff had just given birth and the dog was soon treating the new addition as one of the family. Endearingly, the chimp soon seemed to think he was a puppy himself, bending double to eat from food bowls with his adoptive siblings.

[ramseycat]

Omg, he is so cute!!! Look how he snuggles with his "mamma."

[Riotgear]

Like I said, pink.

[Duchess]

While I do think those are very cute pix I am more than a little creeped out by the chimp. He gives me the willies.

[Lady Cop]

re post 37.

fucking bloody EBOLA
ugly, virulent, deadly, highly infectious.

(CNN) -- The lethal Ebola virus has left at least 14 people dead in western Uganda this month, according to Health Ministry officials, after local reports of a "strange disease" swept through the region.

A total of 20 cases of the virus have been recorded, officials said Saturday.

The cases have emerged in Kibaale, a district in midwestern Uganda, where a national task force had been mobilized in an effort to combat the outbreak.

Officials from the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control are also supporting that effort, ministry officials say.

The Ebola virus is considered a highly infectious disease spread through direct contact with bodily fluids, with symptoms that include fever, vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, headache, measles-like rash, red eyes and at times bleeding from body openings.

Health officials urged the public to report suspected cases and avoid contact with anyone who has contracted the virus and to disinfect the bedding and clothing of an infected person by using protective gloves and masks.

Officials also advised against eating dead animals, especially monkeys, and to avoid public gatherings in the affected district.



There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola, and in Uganda, where in 2000 the disease killed 224 people and left hundreds more traumatized, it resurrects terrible memories.

Ebola, which manifests itself as a hemorrhagic fever, is highly infectious and kills quickly. It was first reported in 1976 in Congo and is named for the river where it was recognized, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Scientists don't know the natural reservoir of the virus, but they suspect the first victim in an Ebola outbreak gets infected through contact with an infected animal, such as a monkey.

The virus can be transmitted in several ways, including through direct contact with the blood of an infected person. During communal funerals, for example, when the bereaved come into contact with an Ebola victim, the virus can be contracted, officials said, warning against unnecessary contact with suspected cases of Ebola.