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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Chimp Attack Highlights Increased Drug Use Among Pets


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Travis the chimp sits in his playroom in a Connecticut home in 2003. Minutes before the chimp attacked a woman in February 2009, he may have been given the anti-anxiety medication Xanax because he was agitated, according to statements by his owner that she later retracted.

Photograph by Kathleen O'Rourke/The Stamford Advocate/AP