While Brogoitti has refused to comment on the incident to local reporters, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) slammed the woman for refusing to allow Buck to live in a nature reserve equipped to meet his needs as a wild animal. Officers arrived to find Buck roaming around a fenced-in area and fatally shot the chimpanzee once in the head. We’re both locked in the basement, and they have to do a headshot on the ape.”

if the ape gets the drop on him, he’s gone, too,” she explained. When Brogoitti was informed that help was on the way, she warned the dispatcher to make sure enough officers were sent to deal with the animal. “I’ve locked myself in the basement with her,” Brogoitti told the operator. While speaking with the dispatcher, Brogoitti revealed she and her 50-year-old daughter were hiding from the chimpanzee and advised officers to shoot the animal once they arrived. Brogoitti told police the chimpanzee had bitten her daughter on the legs, torso, and arms. Recently a group of researchers at Loango National Park in Gabon reported that two lethal coalitionary attacks had been carried out by a chimpanzee community. On Wednesday, the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office revealed there was an incident on Sunday morning at the Pendleton home of Tamara Brogoitti, who owned the chimpanzee for 17 years.īrogoitti, 68, contacted police after the ape, Buck, escaped from its cage and attacked her daughter. A chimpanzee owner in Oregon advised cops to fatally shoot the animal after the ape attacked her daughter over the weekend.

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