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A famous tool-using chimpanzee living near a Guinea research center reportedly ripped a baby from her mother’s arms and then killed her.
The mother, Seny Zogba, told Reuters that she was working in a cassava field when the chimpanzee, one of two surviving male chimpanzees in the area, came up from behind, grabbed her eight-month-old baby, and ran off into the forest.
The mutilated body of the infant was later found about 1.9 miles away.
“Witnesses claimed the baby girl had been eviscerated by the chimp, perhaps using tools,” according to The Times. “The organs had been harvested for food, some reports said.”
The baby’s death prompted a large angry crowd to ransack the Bossou Environmental Research Institute, “destroying and setting fire to equipment including drones, computers and over 200 documents,” according to Reuters.
“Papers and equipment including computers, camera traps, and drones were piled up and set on fire, gutting the international research facility.” the Times noted. “Only when the army deployed was calm restored.”
“It’s the way she was killed, that’s what angered the population,” Joseph Doré, a member of the group that attacked the facility, told the Times.
He added that hunger had likely driven the chimpanzee to kill.
“A project to plant a new green corridor to connect the Bossou chimps with other groups over the mountain had displaced farmers from their land and left both animals and humans short of food, he said,” the Times wrote.
“In the past, the village had the space to grow enough food to comfortably share with the chimps, Doré said. Fewer fields now meant that neither humans nor animals were eating well.
Moussa Koya, another local, said the food shortage had recently led to the chimpanzees engaging in aggressive crop-raiding, sometimes injuring women and children in the process.
“It was not their will [to be violent] but it has become the habit of the chimpanzees,” Koya said.
Gen Yamakoshi, the chief researcher at the Bossou Institute, thinks it’s even worse than that…
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