![]() But lest you think that publishers’ 2013 catalogs featured chimps in nonfiction only, last year also produced two noteworthy novels about chimpanzees: Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves and Colin McAdam’s A Beautiful Truth. As de Waal observes early in his latest book, The Bonobo and the Atheist (the title notwithstanding, the book discusses chimps at least as much as it does bonobos-more about that later), “I feel very much at home with, but I never have any illusions about how ‘nice’ they are.” Equally comfortable with chimps and other primates and similarly cognizant of the dangers they can pose is Sherri Speede, whose Kindred Beings was released just a few months ago. ![]() Travis the chimp’s vicious actions surely wouldn’t surprise famed primatologist Franz de Waal. Efforts to give her new hands failed, and Nash lost her eyes as well. Her nose was almost gone, as was most of her scalp.” Remarkably, Nash survived the attack ultimately, she underwent a successful face transplant. Her upper jaw and eyelids were ripped off. If you’ve forgotten the specifics, The Woman Who Lost Her Face, a free e-book produced by NBC News, will remind you of the salient, savage details: adopted by Nash’s friend Sandra Herold fourteen years earlier and raised as if he had been human offspring, Travis the chimp “had torn off hands and mutilated her face. ![]() One February day in 2009, the fifty-five-year-old was attacked by a chimpanzee in suburban Stamford. Five years have passed since a Connecticut woman named Charla Nash suffered a gruesome and grievously life-altering experience.
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