Chimps attack people after habitat loss

Habitat loss may be to blame for an apparent spate of violent attacks by chimpanzees on humans in the war-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). According to officials at Virunga National Park, located on the border between the DRC, Uganda and Rwanda, at least one person – a child – has been killed in recent months, in a chimpanzee attack just south of the park in the area around the city of Goma.