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Actually, the state has a responsibility to protect people from dangerous animals once it creates an agency funded to do just that.
A mildly interesting corollary...
What if the state recognized it was illegal, but simply chose that other things were if greater importance in which to focus time and resources to dealing with than the chimp.
I can see an argument that the state would be culpable to some degree, but I think it would also be mitigated by the woman's own actions as well. In this instance, had the state acted then it could've been prevented....but it still could've been prevented without state action if she did not put herself into a knowingly dangerous situation.