


The chimpanzee weighing at least 200 pounds was outside, and she had gone to help in luring it back to the friend’s house. Charla Nash was also attacked by a friend’s pet chimpanzee in 2009. The brutal chimpanzee attack is a normal behavior for chimpanzees that feel that their territory is under threat as previously stated. The tunnel enclosure was not properly locked, and the chimpanzee, unfortunately, attacked them. The two were cleaning the sanctuary while in the safety of the thought that the chimpanzee was in another area, and it could not get to them through the tunnels. While cleaning the Chimpanzee cage at a sanctuary, the intern and Charla Nash were brutally attacked by a chimpanzee leaving the two brutally injured. The reasons the Chimp attacked the intern and Charla Nash The following essay looks at the case of the 2012 Oregon Sanctuary Chimp attack. Researchers have concluded that the reasons behind the patrolling include food availability, hunting activities, intruder pressures and male party size. The chimpanzees usually walk around the boundary and along a straight line in silence searching for any predators or any other intruders. Chimpanzee usually defends their territory, and they exhibit a behavior known as boundary or territory patrolling. A territory is an area the chimpanzee has taken up that includes all the resources like food, mates or the breeding sites. Male chimpanzees defend their heavily used core areas and routinely patrol the periphery of their territory. Chimp Attack! Introduction Chimpanzees are known to be very territorial animals, in fact, they are known for their territorial behavior.
