Travis the Chimpanzee was socialized amongst humans since birth
In 1995, Sandra and Jerome Herold from Connecticut bought a three-day-old chimpanzee and brought it up as their son. They took him everywhere and even appeared on The Maury Povich Show. The Herolds’ neighbors said that he always paid attention to what his owners said and was perfectly well-behaved.
He managed to adopt many human behaviors and even remembered the ice cream trucks’ s schedule. Everything took a dark turn in 2009 when the animal suddenly flew into a rage and savagely maimed one of his owner’s friends, Charla Nash. The chimp was shot by the police and killed.