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Article: Chimpanzee Mauling Sparks Call for Legislation Banning Nonhuman Primates as Pets
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- February 17, 2009
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The Animal Protection Institute issued the following news release:
Born Free USA united with Animal Protection Institute (Born Free USA), a national non-profit animal advocacy organization, today sent a letter to Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell urging her to take the necessary steps to ban the keeping of nonhuman primates as pets after a woman was critically mauled by a friend's chimpanzee on Monday. The chimpanzee, named Travis, was stabbed several times by his owner and finally shot to death by police.
"Connecticut already prohibits the keeping of big cats, bears, wolves, coyotes, venomous reptiles, alligators, and crocodiles as personal pets. Tragically, this law does not include ...