Chimps attack people after habitat loss Congo (10cc was right in 1979 about this and global warming)

10cc understood this in their 1979 album: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequences_%28Godley_%26_Creme_album%29




Chimps attack people after habitat loss

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22369-chimps-attack-people-after-habitat-loss.html

October 2012 by Curtis Abraham and Tiffany O'Callaghan

Habitat loss may be to blame for an apparent spate of violent attacks by chimpanzees on humans in the war-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

According to officials at Virunga National Park, located on the border between the DRC, Uganda and Rwanda, at least one person – a child – has been killed in recent months, in a chimpanzee attack just south of the park in the area around the city of Goma.



A woman attempted to scare the chimp away to protect the child, says Alison Mollon of the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) in Germany, which works in partnership with the park. Unfortunately, the chimp reacted aggressively. "It generally seems that where people react aggressively, the result is aggressive behaviour in return," she says.

Mistrust of chimpanzees has been heightened by local media reports, which suggest that as many as 10 people have been killed and 17 injured by chimps, in acts that were reported as "revenge attacks" for people encroaching on their territory.

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