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The Connecticut tragedy should remind us not just that chimpanzees do not make good pets but that their fate is intimately tied to ours.įor more information, see Jane Goodall’s full opinion piece and the sections Chimpanzees don’t make good pets and Chimpanzees in entertainment of her website. And sometimes chimpanzees are caught up in ethnic conflicts or killed for their meat, a practice that is believed to have led to the human strains of HIV. This deforestation also contributes significantly to climate change. “It will be a great day for Charla and for all of us.Chimpanzees are losing habitat, in part because of commercial logging and in part because of encroachment by ever-growing human populations who live in poverty and cut down the forest to grow crops and graze cattle. “I think her new face will allow her to be present when Brianna graduates from college in a few years,” he says. But one day, the 200lb ape snapped, launching a savage, 12-minute attack on his owner's friend.

Travis the chimp was a local celebrity, who ate in restaurants and used the toilet. Pomahac notes that Nash did not attend her daughter Brianna’s high school graduation last year because she didn’t want to distract from the ceremonies. Crazed pet chimp wails as he rips off woman's face and eats eyes in harrowing phone call WARNING: Graphic content.

11, 2009 - The Connecticut woman who was attacked by her friends chimpanzee in February, revealed the mangled remains of her face on the Oprah Winfrey show today for the first time, publicly showing the remnants of her missing eyes, nose and lips. Nash went on the Oprah Show and displayed her blank and mangled features.īut she’s generally been loathe to go out in public without a veil. By RUSSELL GOLDMAN November 11, 2009, 7:58 AM Nov. A harrowing 911 recording from the chimp’s owner, pleading with police to come and shoot the rampaging chimp, has been widely circulated.įollowing her initial restorative surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. Many people know of Nash because her injuries were so horrific – the angry chimp ripped off her face and gnawed her hands and forearm. The functioning of the face will really add to the quality of her life.” Nash’s brother Steve calls the transplant results “outstanding.” She will need lifelong immune-suppressing drugs to prevent the donor tissue from being rejected. Nash is still on and off a ventilator and sedated much of the time, although Pomahac says she is communicating through nods and arm gestures. Her eyes had to be removed after the attack. She could eat, smell, express her emotion and feel the face.” When the transplanted tissue heals and nerves regrow – a process that will take at least nine months and possibly longer – Pomahac says Nash “should control the face well. 10 She was left needing facial reconstructive surgery after the attack Credit: AP:Associated Press The 14-stone ape savaged Charla as Sandra screamed 'he's eating her' down the phone to a 911. “We’re optimistic that should Charla choose in the future, we could transplant the hands again, should a suitable donor be identified.”ĭespite the loss of the hands, Pomahac says, “I consider it still a success” because Nash has a very good chance of regaining “a very functional face.” Travis had ripped off her hands, nose, lips and torn out her. “After several days of doing everything possible to retain the hands, it was clear that they were not thriving,” Pomahac said at a press conference. But it was Charla’s injuries that truly horrified paramedics and police at the scene. Charla Nash spoke about the isolation she feels but added she was determined to get. Sandra Herold was left no choice but to stab her 40,000 pet in the back with a carving knife and batter him over the head with a shovel when he unleashed a savage assault on her friend. That compromised blood flow to the transplanted hands, so surgeons had to remove them. A woman who had her face and hands ripped off by a chimpanzee, has told of her battle to cope five years on. A crazed pet chimpanzee started 'eating' a woman's face as he stripped it of flesh in a drug -fuelled attack. But after the operation Nash suffered a blood infection that caused her blood pressure to crash. In a 20-hour operation, surgeon Bohdan Pomahac says the team transplanted hands from the same donor. And while doctors have high hopes for her recovery, the other part of the surgery didn’t go so well. In February 2009, Travis and his owner Sandra Hero. She’ received a full-face transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston - only the third American to receive the operation. Travis was a male common chimpanzee who attacked and nearly killed a woman in North Stamford, Connecticut.

Chimpanzee rips face off of woman