[7-12] CHIMP ATTACK: INSIDE THE CENTER

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[7-12] CHIMP ATTACK: INSIDE THE CENTER        

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): Now to the American [1]grad student fighting for his life after being attacked by two chimps in South Africa, each of these chimps [2]seven-times stronger than the average human.  And [3]over my shoulder tonight, [4]a better sense of how this all started.

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(VO): The student standing between two fences when one of the chimps reached under [5]an electric fence and grabbed the victim's feet.  ABC's Alex Marquardt with an exclusive tour of that research center tonight.

ALEX MARQUARDT (ABC NEWS)(VO): As we drove into Chimpanzee Eden today, the first thing you see are [6]signs about wild animals.  [7]On our exclusive tour, we saw [8]the beautiful and vast reserve teeming with wildlife, [9]its chimp enclosures encircled by electrified fences.  Warnings that 26-year-old Texas grad student Andrew Oberle was well aware of, having volunteered here for his second time, which is why it's unclear why Oberle entered [10]the no-go area where he was attacked by two male chimps.  It lasted around 20 minutes before [11]staff was able to scare them off.

ALEX MARQUARDT (ABC NEWS)(OC): [12]This is as close as we can get to the scene of the attack.  It's still being investigated, but [13]the park's board says the chimps were reacting to what they saw as [14]a breach of their territory.  This wasn't [15]a freak act of aggression, so [16]the chimps won't be euthanized.

ALEX MARQUARDT (ABC NEWS)(VO): Chimps are [17]fiercely territorial.  They're also seven-times stronger than humans.

ALEX MARQUARDT (ABC NEWS)(VO): In Animal Planet's "Escape to Chimp Eden," director Eugene Cousins was trying to train chimps but instead had to [18]pepper spray an aggressive one.  After six hours of surgery, Oberle tonight [19]remains in an induced coma with a broken arm and [20]torn ligaments.  He's also lost fingers and toes.  Today, his parents flew in from the US to be with him.

ROBYN BAARD (SPOKESPERSON FOR NELSPRUIT MEDICLINIC): [21]He's still sedated.  He's very seriously ill, as we know.  But having said that, he is stable.

ALEX MARQUARDT (ABC NEWS)(OC): The hospital tells us it's very difficult to say when Oberle will [22]come out of his coma and even more difficult to say when he'll be stable enough to go home.  [23]The situation, they tell us, is very much wait and see.  David?

DAVID MUIR (ABC NEWS)(OC): [24]Everyone pulling for him.  Alex Marquardt tonight, Alex, thank you.

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[1] 사투를 벌이는 대학원생

[2] 사람보다 7배는 더 강한

[3] 저의 어깨 너머로 보이는 영상

[4] 이 모든 상황이 어떻게 시작되었는지를 더 잘 알 수 있도록

[5] 전기 철책

[6] 야생 동물들에 대한 표지판들

[7] 우리 ABC의 독점 취재 중에

[8] 야생동물들로 넘쳐나는 아름답고 광대한 동물 보호 구역

[9] 전기 철책들로 둘러싸인 침팬지 우리들

[10] 접근 엄금 구역

[11] 직원들이 겁을 줘 떨어지게 하다 

[12] (침팬지들이) 공격한 현장에 우리가 가장 가까이 다가간 것

[13] 공원 관리 측

[14] 침팬지 영역 침범

[15] 공격 행위

[16] 해당 침팬지들을 안락사시키지 않을 것이다

[17] 영역을 굉장히 중요시하는

[18] 공격적인 침팬지에게 후추 총을 쏘다

[19] 의도적 혼수 상태이다

[20] 파열된 인대들

[21] 그는 아직도 안정제가 투여된 상태이다

[22] 혼수 상태에서 깨어나다

[23] 현재 상태는 아직도 상당히 지켜봐야 하는 상태이다

[24] 모든 사람이 그를 격려하고 있다