Bedtime for Bonzo

As chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, Rep. Nick Rahall, D-3rd, has called for action on the proposed Captive Primate Safety Act following the brutal mauling of a woman by a pet chimpanzee in Connecticut.

As both CNN and Politico report, Rahall "warned that primates are too dangerous to be kept as pets."

“Images of Curious George and Koko may lead us to believe that these creatures are cuddly and harmless, but last week’s tragedy and other similar attacks stand as evidence that this is not the case, that they are in fact wild animals, and they simply must not be kept as pets,” Rahall said in a statement.