Jungle Breakout

In an animal sanctuary in Sierra Leone, three American tourists watch in horror as a gigantic chimpanzee tears their driver from the car, screaming for his life. He came through the windshield. It was like the glass wasn't even there, recalls one. Then the beast six times stronger than any human turns its savage attention on the others, egged on by the ferocious calls of thirty more apes in the trees above. By the time its over, one human lies dead, others are mutilated, and the fearless alpha male is leading his screaming troupe out of the locked refuge and into human territory? We share 96% of our DNA with these creatures. They can understand sign language, call each other by name, and solve problems through logic. What could cause them to brutally attack and kill humans? Was this a threat display gone wrong? Or had the men stumbled into the wrong area, and faced the territorial ferocity chimps usually reserve for each other? Our investigation looks at our closest relative on Earth to discover a dark side we may not have suspected and a motive behind this gruesome attack that places responsibility not with the animals, but with us: all the chimps in the sanctuary had been abused as pets. By humans.