One of them “bit off the fingers and toes of his keeper,” according to Gerald Tenywa of the New Vision newspaper in Kampala. In 2003 two Goodall Institute chimps escaped from quarantine at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda. Similar incidents reportedly occurred at Gombe in 1984, 1987, and in the 1950s. Frodo, who had already attacked and beaten Jane Goodall herself in 1989, among many other previous violent incidents, tore the child away, beat her to death against a tree, disemboweled her, and was eating her brain by the time guards arrived.įrodo, not punished for the killing, reportedly died of natural causes in 2014, at age 43. The niece was carrying Sadique’s 14-month-old daughter. Jane Goodall Institute sanctuaries already had a notoriously bad safety record.įor instance, Outside magazine writer Elizabeth Royte and Gombe Stream National Park director of chimp research Shadrack Kamenya, writing for Pan Africa News, in late 2002 described a May 2002 incident in which a chimp named Frodo accosted the wife and 16-year-old niece of Gombe park attendant Moshi Sadique. (Beth Clifton collage) Goodall facilities already had bad record Ross, after the attack on Oberle, tried to keep the focus of media discussion on chimpanzee behavior and chimp needs in captivity, but there were many further dimensions to the case.Īndrew Oberle, before (background) and recently (foreground). Ross, 52, “died suddenly in the early morning of April 20, 2022,” the zoo and the North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance announced. Fisher Center for the Study & Conservation of Apes at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. Placed in a medically induced coma due to blood loss, Oberle underwent six hours of surgery five days after the attack.Īmong the experts called upon to investigate and comment on the Oberle attack was Steve Ross, director of the Lester E. Oberle lost an ear, several fingers and toes and a testicle. anthropology student Andrew Oberle, 26, by two chimpanzees named Nikki and Amadeus at the Jane Goodall Institute Chimpanzee Eden in Mupumalanga, South Africa. The conflicting accounts of Mathebula’s death somewhat recalled the still controversial Jmauling of U.S. (Facebook photo) Nikki, Amadeus, & the late Steve Ross Shando Mathebula, South African National Parks ranger.

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