![]() ![]() The fact that members of the public are allowed to use paths through the park, and the fact that some of those people have not remained alert to the danger from chimps, were contributory factors to this incident. ![]() Luckily the male was alone with no other chimps around, and so the researchers were later able to retrieve the baby’s body. When he was next seen, by one of the researchers, he was in a tree and the baby was dead, but after eating only a little portion he left the baby on a branch, descended the tree, and moved away, apparently to avoid the observer. The chimpanzee approached the two women, and at that distance they had no time to run and were too weak to do anything to protect their child, so he took the baby from the girl’s back, and moved off into the forest. They had just crossed a small dry gully, when they came unexpectedly on the alpha male of Kasekela community, Frodo, just 4 metres from the path, where he was feeding on oil-palm fronds on the ground. They were walking on a public footpath which runs through the Park, and about 11:20 am, when they were still about three kilometers away from the research camp at Kasekela, they passed through the forest near the shore at Kahama. She was accompanied by her niece, aged 16, who was carrying the baby. The mother and her baby were coming into Gombe from their village of Mgaraganza which is outside the National Park. A human baby, 14 months old, was kidnapped and killed by an adult male chimpanzee. At Gombe National Park, Tanzania, a tragic incident occurred on the 15th of May, 2002. ![]()
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