Stamford, CT police have released the 911 call made Monday when a large pet chimpanzee, Travis the chimp, went on a rampage. On the tape, you can hear the chimp’s owner, Sandra Herold, plead for help as her pet attacks her friend. You can also hear the chimp in the background. Here is the original story.

In Stamford, CT, Charla Nash, 55, was injured seriously when attacked by the 200-pound pet chimpanzee of her friend, Sandra Herold, 70. In fact, Travis the chimp was more than a pet; he had been used in commercials and appeared on TV, yet he attacked without warning.

Researchers have carried out the largest study of differences between human and chimpanzee genomes, identifying regions that have been duplicated or lost during evolution of the two lineages. The study, published in Genome Research, is the first to compare many human and chimpanzee genomes in the same fashion.

An area of the brain involved in the planning and production of spoken and signed language in humans plays a similar role in chimpanzee communication, researchers report online on February 28th in the journal Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press.

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the relatively ancient rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), providing perspective into how humans are genetically different from our primate relatives. In addition to benefiting human health research in areas as diverse as HIV and aging, the genome enhances understanding of primate evolution.