HORROR AS WELL-KNOWN CHIMPANZEE VIOLENTLY TEARS BABY FROM HER MOTHER AND KILLS HER

A renowned tool-using chimpanzee tore a baby from its mother's arms and killed her, causing horror in Boussou, West Africa.

Since it was initially discovered that the chimpanzees in the region were chopping up their food with stone hammers and anvils, tourists and researchers have been fascinated by these primates. Scientists have been studying the animal and its particularly odd but clever behaviour at this remote African site for decades. The chimps are thought to be the reincarnation of their ancestors by the populated farming community that surrounds them near the Nimba Mountains. Nevertheless, there are now only four apes left as of recent years. And while researchers and visitors have studied the apes for decades without incident, last Friday, September 20, tragedy struck when one of the two male chimpanzees that remained snatched an eight-month-old baby girl from her mother's arms. The animal then took the baby into the forest and brutally killed her.

Local media was informed by witnesses that the girl might have enraged the chimp by utilizing its tools. Other reports, however, claim that the girl's organs have subsequently been taken for food. Chimpanzees "no longer fear humans," according to General Yamakoshi, head researcher at the Bossou Institute, as reported by the Times. "It's unclear if excitement or food is to blame for the accidents. It resembles the way chimpanzees interact with one another. They are unable to control their behaviour when they are excited," the expert continued. The Bossou Environmental Research Institute is to blame, according to local Joseph Doré, who told the Times, "It's the way she was killed, that's what angered the population." According to Doré, the chimp's primary motivation for snatching and killing the baby was hunger, as she revealed to the Guinea News website. He continued by saying that farmers had been forced to relocate due to a project to create a new green corridor that would link the chimps with larger groups, depriving both the animals and the farmers of food.