Chimps Gone Wild! - DPChallenge Forums

Canon EF 135mm f/2.0L USM

03/07/2005 09:31:56 PM · #1

Did you all here about that? They bit his hand, his foot, his ear his nose and his cahones off all in a few short minutes. And then they ripped his eyeball out of the socket for good measure. I knew chimps were tough, but I had no idea that two of the cute little fellows could do that to a full grown man so quickly.

lentil

Canon EOS-5D

03/07/2005 09:34:34 PM · #2

Arrgghhh! where did that happen. I didnt hear about it

Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED

03/07/2005 09:38:55 PM · #3

Here's the link.

megryan

Nikon D300

03/07/2005 09:39:30 PM · #4

I heard a little of it but didn't see it on TV. Chimps can be fierce and more so in the wild. I think it wanted a birthday cake the guy had which he was giving to another chimp that he had raised since a baby. I'd like to know how the others got out to attack unless he was in the enclosure with them all ! Poor guy, he'd be a mess. hope he recovers from it !

03/07/2005 09:39:43 PM · #5

Sorry, that was the wrong one. Try this.

03/07/2005 09:39:53 PM · #6

nsbca, they were looking for you earlier, did they find you?

03/07/2005 09:43:44 PM · #7

according to this he lost "all the fingers from both hands, an eye, part of his nose, cheek, lips and part of his buttocks in the ferocious attack"

Canon EF 135mm f/2.0L USM

03/07/2005 09:46:10 PM · #8

Originally posted by longlivenyhc:

according to this he lost "all the fingers from both hands, an eye, part of his nose, cheek, lips and part of his buttocks in the ferocious attack"

I heard they put his eye back in.

lentil

Canon EOS-5D

03/07/2005 09:50:47 PM · #9

wow, what would make them do this?

03/07/2005 09:51:20 PM · #10

Originally posted by lentil:

wow, what would make them do this?

according to my link, they made eye contact.

03/07/2005 09:53:06 PM · #11

I bet money I could take on one chimp at a time...any takers?

Tokina AF 12-24mm f/4.0 AT-X Pro DX

03/07/2005 09:54:18 PM · #12

Originally posted by deapee:

I bet money I could take on one chimp at a time...any takers?

robocop quote: "i'd buy that for a dollar!"

Beagleboy

Canon EOS-30D

03/07/2005 09:55:37 PM · #13

People are just plain stupid around wild animals. I remember seeing a guy run after a full grown male bison in Yellowstone National park to get a better picture! When I was a Parks Canada warden, we used to have to tell people all the time not to interact with animals like bears, coyotes, racoons, etc. The worst was having to shoot human-habituated animals that we couldn't live-trap. That sucked.

I can see how the guy got the stuffing torn out of him like that. Full grown male chimps are twice as strong as a full grown man. This guy had to fight two pissed off chimps. That's like trying to fight off four fit strong guys who aren't afraid to use their teeth!

Curious George can kick yo ass!

03/07/2005 09:57:31 PM · #14

Maybe I can make some money from this...you find me the chimp and I'll fight it.

03/07/2005 09:59:06 PM · #15

Originally posted by deapee:

Maybe I can make some money from this...you find me the chimp and I'll fight it.

i'll put a dollar on you...and 10 on the eyeball removing chimp.

03/07/2005 10:27:47 PM · #16

Originally posted by longlivenyhc:

Originally posted by deapee:
Maybe I can make some money from this...you find me the chimp and I'll fight it.

i'll put a dollar on you...and 10 on the eyeball removing chimp.

They shot the eyeball removing chimp and his gonad removing buddy. That is how they got them off the guy.

03/07/2005 10:30:23 PM · #17

Originally posted by Beagleboy:

I don't think these were wild. Just pissed off. And the article says he wasn't fighting them off. He was trying to reason with them.

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

03/07/2005 10:41:52 PM · #18

Originally posted by nsbca7:

I don't think these were wild. Just pissed off. And the article says he wasn't fighting them off. He was trying to reason with them.

"please dont tear off those things...i kinda need them...c'mon guys, i'll take you out for beers if you stop..."

Neil

Fujifilm X-T30

03/07/2005 10:43:11 PM · #19

I read that a few days ago. He was there visiting his old "pet" chimp.

By the talk about taking a single chimp on, and the surprise that a chimp can do this, people are talking like chimps are small (often what we see as chimps are infants). Full grown chimps are not small. I didn't remember the statistics, so I've looked it up on the latimes article sidebars:

Weight 100-120 lbs
Height Standing: 4 to 5.5 feet
Strength: About 5 times that of humans

Actually, I thought I recalled that the weight would have been higher, as well as I recall from 25 years ago in comparative psychology.

Regards--Neil

03/07/2005 10:47:23 PM · #20

shoot 4 to 5.5 feet, 100-120 pounds...no problem.

Their strength is 5 times that of a normal human. I'm a super-human.

03/07/2005 10:48:22 PM · #21

Originally posted by nshapiro:

what about a human high on PCP?

03/07/2005 10:49:30 PM · #22

I'm just throw down some meth-amphetamines or whatever.