Chimpanzee steals and kills baby, angering locals!!

Local residents attacked a chimpanzee sanctuary in Guinea last Friday after a woman claimed that one of the animals had kidnapped and killed her infant child.

According to eyewitnesses, the angry crowd vandalized the building, destroyed equipment, and set fire to it, including drones, computers, and more than 200 documents.

In this way, the residents expressed their reaction to the news of the discovery of the mutilated body of the child three kilometers away from the Nimba Mountains Nature Reserve, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The child’s mother told Reuters that she was working in a cassava field when a chimpanzee came from behind, bit her, and dragged her child into the forest.

Experts believe that the reduction in food size in the reserve often causes animals to leave the protected area, increasing the likelihood of them attacking humans.

The research center reported that it has recorded six attacks by chimpanzees on people in the reserve since the beginning of the year.

The forests of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in West Africa are the primary habitat for the largest number of endangered western chimpanzee populations, which have declined by 80% between 1990 and 2014, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

In Guinea, chimpanzees are respected and are traditionally offered food as gifts, which encourages some of these animals to venture outside the protected area and enter nearby villages, where they may sometimes attack humans.

Last August, the Daily Star claimed that a chimpanzee named “Saddam” was terrorizing a village in western Uganda. She noted that “Saddam,” known for his strength, speed, and keen insight, used to bully several villages in the mid and late 1990s. This monkey was distinguished by its excessive love for abducting small children, which ultimately led the local residents to kill it.