“In the morning I would do analysis of data, then spend an hour or two with the students, looking at the chimps, then every afternoon was his totally. So Grub sat in a cage, but it was painted blue and had mobiles hanging down. I wasn’t going to risk my little precious son. They have been known to take infant humans. Jane says: “It was dangerous for him at Gombe. Jane so loved life among the chimps that when she married National Geographic photographer Baron Hugo van Lawick and they had a son called Grub, the boy spent his formative years in a cage, staring out from the bars at the wild creatures of Gombe Stream National Park in northwest Tanzania.
#Chimpanzee face rip off tv#
It has revolutionised our understanding of chimps and of human evolution, and is the subject of a National Geographic film that premieres on TV tonight. It is now 60 years since Jane began her remarkable research, the longest continuous study of any animal. I had a feeling nothing was going to hurt me because I was meant to be here.” “Sometimes I was frightened of things like leopards, but it was the life I’d dreamed of and nothing could deter me. “There were no people out in the field whose research I could read about, except one man who painted himself with baboon poo and sat in hides, hoping chimpanzees would appear. Jane, now 83, admits: “I didn’t know chimpanzees can rip your face off. Her childhood dreams of friendly apes were quickly dispelled as she discovered the calculating, warlike nature of the apes that was disturbingly human. She was so desperate to live with the wild animals of Africa that she moved to Kenya and was rewarded with the chance to study chimpanzees in the remote mountains of Tanzania.ĭespite instructions to get as close as possible, Jane never stopped to consider the potential danger. The hospital has a grant from the Department of Defense to perform five face transplants.As a girl Jane Goodall read the adventures of Tarzan of the Apes and Dr Dolittle as she hid in the highest branches of the trees in her garden and dreamt of following in their footsteps. A second full-face transplant followed in April on Mitch Hunter, an Indiana man. The Brigham and Women's team did its first full-face transplant in March on Dallas Wiens, a Texas man who went home from the hospital last month. "It will be a great day for Charla and for all of us."
"I think her new face will allow her to be present when Brianna graduates from college in a few years," he says. 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. 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. (You can listen here, but be warned, it's EXTREMELY disturbing.)įollowing her initial restorative surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. A harrowing 911 recording from the chimp's owner, pleading with police to come and shoot the rampaging chimp, has been widely circulated. Many people know of Nash because her injuries were so horrific – the angry chimp ripped off her face and gnawed her hands and forearm.
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. "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." "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. That compromised blood flow to the transplanted hands, so surgeons had to remove them. 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. Charla Nash: Transplant animation from BWH Public Affairs on Vimeo.
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