Woman Mauled by Chimpanzee Appears on 'Oprah'

I am so sad for Travis becuase he was stabbed several times then finally shot. He was obviously very unhappy that is why he was on medication. He didn't need medication, but rather to be living in his natural habitat with his own kind, Although this was a horrible tragedy for all involved, I hope this is a wake up call for better legislation to protect exoctic animals, and animals of all kind. Animals lives are equal to our own.

If there was justice in this world it would be not this nice woman but a PETA ecoterrorist who would have learned the hard way that animals as as much bastards as we are and there is nothing wrong in eating killing or having them as pets. Nature is like that cruel and vicious.

My heart goes out to Mrs Nash she seems like such a nice lady and did nothing to deserve this attack. I don't have much sympathy for the monkey though. Saving that lady was more important than trying to do anything with the chimp. PETA is right though these animals should never be kept as pets and this is just a horible reminder. Hopefully this makes people realize that exotic creatures are not pets and should be left in the wild not in peoples homes.

This is one of the only stories I agree with you people on. Travis would have never gone crazy had he been kept in a normal habitat. Wild animals are meant to be wild and should not be kept as pets or used for Hollywood unless they have good handlers who know what they're doing.

Having read Free the Animals I feel really sad when I hear or see chimps being used by humans for entertainment or testing. Just because they have such expressive faces and darling babies and are so closely related to humans on the evolutionary chain people exploit them. One of the most traumatising movies of my childhood was called Project X about chimps being used for radiation testing by the miltary. After reading Free the Animals I have pointed out to whoever is willing to listen that there is a scene in the beginning of the movie Dawn of the Deadthe remakewhere animal liberationists are trying to free chimps that have been tested on and infected with a rage virus. It's almost laughable that they would portray the ALF agents opening cages with full grown male chimps and calling them forward without any type of tranquilizers or materials to transport them. Sadly adult chimps in testing facilities normally CANNOT be rescued and have to be left to their fates. Due to the very sensitive and time restrained manners of the rescues and the absolute strength of a grown chimp the ALF and others like them know they cannot risk taking these animals. If ALF agents who spend their lives working with and helping animals cannot handle adult chimps without major risk how can people in a suburban household be expected to? It's absolutely ridiculous for people to keep these animals as "pets". It works out the same with other exotics like tigers and panthers and bears and large snakes. When the animal eventually acts upwhich happens to even the most domesticated of creatureshumans get hurt...and the poor animal inevitably gets killed. I'm sorry for what happened to that woman but I am even more sorry for Travis. It could be that he would never have harmed another living being in his lifetime but he was not given the chance to prove it.