Yesterday we covered the sad tale of the chimp going "bananas" on a lady's face. Turns out the woman who owned the attacking chimp is bananas as well. (Who knew?)
Sandra Herold claimed she loved the now-departed pet chimpanzee Travis like a son, but friends claim their relationship might have been more like that of lovers, and now another woman has come forward claiming Travis attacked her years ago.
Regarding the previous unprovoked attack, Leslie Mostel-Paul says she tried shaking Travis' hand, when the chimp tried pulling her through a car window into the car and bit her hand.
And regarding the nature of the pet/owner relationship, The New York Post reports that in addition to Sandra and Travis sharing filet mignon, lobster tails, and wine, "They bathed and slept together. He tenderly brushed her hair. She gave him gifts and sweet kisses. He drew her pictures."
Sandra lost her daughter years ago and then her husband, so the Post speculates that Travis was a replacement, and even if they weren't "intimate intimate," they were intimate, Sandra's unnamed intimates intimated.
And cue a protest by PETA in 3, 2, 1...
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