Don’t bother battling a gorilla! Although no one has ever been murdered by one, the most lethal monkey has torn off limbs and genitalia, eaten off faces, and torn apart newborns.

So I can’t really put pressure on her wounds,” she told the operator. Deputies from the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office arrived on the scene and, with Tamara’s permission, fatally shot Buck to reach the injured woman.

Buck had previously been part of an animal rescue nonprofit and was exempt from Oregon’s 2010 ban on owning exotic animals due to being grandfathered in before the law was enacted.

Incidents involving escaped chimps have also occurred internationally. In 2019, a 12-year-old chimp named Yang Yang broke free from his enclosure at Hefei Wildlife Park in China.

The animal launched a sudden attack on a zookeeper, violently throwing them against a wall before being subdued with a tranquilizer dart.

In Japan, another chimpanzee named Chacha made a dramatic escape from Sendai Yagiyama Zoological Park by scaling electrical poles.