Politics & Crime Primate Power! 8 Non-Violent Chimps You Can Trust

Our chimp cousins don’t wanna hear that noise about them being dangerous savages.

One pet chimpanzee goes ape shit and brutally attacks a woman and all of a sudden everyone is ready to vilify the whole species. Don’t get it twisted'Complex loves humans and is pulling for the victim, 55-year-old Charla Nash, to make a full recovery from her life-threatening injuries'but we’re equally concerned that the rabid media is tearing the story to shreds and undoing years of good will between the genetically similar species.

In an attempt to put a band-aid on the public relations damage done to chimps, take a look back at some of the great chimps that have touched our lives over the years…