![]() ![]() “I don’t want to wake up with nightmares.” ![]() “I want to get healthy,” she told Winfrey. Nash, who has been receiving treatment at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, said she does not remember the attack. “Another possibility is that we are attracted not to the negative feelings themselves, but rather to the feeling of relief that results after we can convince ourselves that everything is OK.” “It may be the case that people are generally attracted to intensely emotional, arousing experiences, and horrifying television moments provide that emotional jolt of arousal that would be difficult or dangerous to come by otherwise,” he said. Lawrence Williams, a professor of marketing at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Leeds School of Business, said people’s interest in tragic stories may reflect a tendency to derive positive feelings from negative circumstances. Since then, much attention has focused on Nash, her medical condition, what it would be like living with such a severely damaged face. Early reports focused on Herold, who considered the chimpanzee a son, dressed him and fed him lobster. “I couldn’t believe that this woman was awake and conscious when she came in,” he said. Kevin Miller, said on Winfrey’s show that several chimpanzee teeth were “implanted” in Nash’s bone. The doctor who treated Nash at Stamford Hospital, Dr. Police shot and killed the animal after it attacked Nash. ![]() Herold had asked Nash to come help her shepherd the chimpanzee into her house. 16, outside the Stamford home of her longtime friend and employer, Sandra Herold. ![]() “I’m starting to get stronger and ready for everything.” Your picture is going to be broadcast all over the world, Oprah told her. They are then often abandoned at roadside zoos or-as was the case with Travis-stay in the home of a person who remains unaware of their tremendous strength until it’s too late.Ĭhimpanzees and other exotic animals were never meant to be confined to people’s homes, and keeping them as “pets” can often be lethal to both the animals and those who live near them.After a commercial break, and after a warning from Oprah to the audience that “it really is nothing you can prepare for,” Winfrey removed Nash’s hat. Once chimpanzees reach adolescence, they become too strong and aggressive for their guardians to handle. The images of Nash are shocking, her buoyant hopefulness is inspiring, and both of those points should prompt another look at Travis’ trajectory from his days as a baby chimpanzee to his years as a confined adult “pet.” Travis, who appeared in several commercials when he was an infant, was just one of many exotic animals who have been torn away from their mothers at a young age in order to be raised by people who don’t fully understand their needs. During the show, Nash declared her readiness to move on and said that she had an optimistic outlook on the future. Nash, who has been in a hospital since the attack, appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and spoke for the first time about her recovery. Earlier this year, Travis, a 15-year-old “pet” chimpanzee, was stabbed repeatedly, pounded with a shovel, and finally shot to death after he attacked a Connecticut woman named Charla Nash. ![]()
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