A chimp, known for using tools like a human, tore a baby from a mother’s arms and brutally killed them in a forest.
The gruesome attack took place in a cassava field in Bossou, in Guinea. The mother, Seny Zogba, was working before the chimpanzee butchered her child.
Horrific details reveal that the baby’s organs were removed from the corpse, The chimp first sunk it’s teeth into Seny before stealing the child from her arms.
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The baby was just eight-months-old and named Yoh Hélène. Her small body was discovered completely mutilated around 3km from the Nimba Mountains Nature Reserve. The chimp, who was previously known to wield human tools, was thought to have used them on the baby.
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An expert, Gen Yamakoshi, spends his professional life researching these beasts. Previously, ape and man could live side-by-side, but things appear to be changing.
He told the Times the severe killings were because the chimps “no longer fear humans.” Locals to the area turned their blame to the scientists studying the beasts. The baby’s corpse was brought to the Bossou Environmental Research Institute.
Not stopping there, the locals entered the building and destroyed everything they could see. Fires were lit and around 200 documents were destroyed. Managers of the centre revealed the true extent of the destruction, with some irreplaceable damage.
Joseph Doré from the institute said the violence of the crime, which had not been seen before, was the reason for the reaction. However, the centre warns more could come with six reported chimp on human attacks recorded since the beginning of the year.
Local ecologist Alidjiou Sylla explained dwindling food supplies are causing the apes to come into human areas in frustration. Moussa Koya, another leader, said “It was not their will [to be violent] but it has become the habit of the chimpanzees.
“It is similar behaviour to how chimps treat one another,” he added. “If they are excited they cannot control their behaviour.”
The great apes live in the wild, but their animal community have been recorded to use stone hammers and anvils to access their food and crack open nuts. The species are closest to humans, but are starting to venture out more often.
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