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Andrew Oberle, who had a passion for observing chimpanzee behavior, fell victim to a chimpanzee attack that left him with serious injuries. During a research trip to the Jane Goodall Institute in Johannesburg, South Africa, Andrew got too close for comfort to the chimps which bit and dragged him for about half a mile. The attack left him needing over 20 surgeries to repair the damage to his arms, feet, ears, and nose.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Humans may be the most dangerous animal in the planet, but every now and then, some animals remind us just what they think of the pecking order. Bad luck or sheer ignorance, people seem to wander in the crosshairs of wild or even domesticated, and seemingly tame, animals, resulting in serious to fatal injuries. Some animals are simply not to be messed with, but people can\u2019t seem to stop themselves from gravitating towards their habitat, and when these animals feel threatened, they respond the way their nature dictates.\u00a0Although some may live to tell the tale of their close encounter, there <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6580],"tags":[8623,55,8624,483],"yst_prominent_words":[9078,8988,13393,22904,22890,10209,22913,16467,8991,22876,22881,19449,22907,18174,22902,22883,22899,22894,8811,22896],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53966"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=53966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}