Her four young children were with her that day, as she combined mothering with hard fieldwork, but she turned her back to get them some drinking water. “A chimpanzee came in the garden as I was digging,” Ntegeka Semata recalled during an interview in early 2017. That was the day when a single big chimp, probably an adult male, snatched the Semata family’s toddler son, Mujuni, and killed him. But on July 20, 2014, scary tribulations gave way to horror-a form of horror that has struck other Ugandan families as well. They had helped themselves to jackfruit from a tree near the Semata house.
The chimps had been coming closer for a year or two, prowling all throughout Kyamajaka village, searching for food, ripping bananas from the trees, grabbing mangoes and papayas and whatever else tempted them. They could barely grow food for themselves, and now a group of desperate, bold, crop-raiding chimpanzees threatened their livelihood, maybe even their safety.
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Life was already hard enough for Ntegeka Semata and her family, scratching out a subsistence on their little patch of garden land along a ridgeline in western Uganda. This story appears in the August 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Police at the time of the attack speculated that a previous bout with Lyme disease may have accounted for the animal?s reported mood swings.Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of violence that may be upsetting to some readers. Herold said Travis was acting strangely earlier in the day of the attack so she gave him the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, but later retracted that statement. The chimpanzee was sometimes taken out of his room-sized cage to eat meals sitting at the dinner table with Herold, and occasionally drank wine from a wineglass. He reportedly enjoyed surfing the Internet and could change the channels on the television using a remote control. The 15-year-old ape, killed by cops, had starred in an Old Navy television commercial advertising cargo shorts. Nash said the chimp was usually kept in a cage, but when it had been allowed outside as a baby, years earlier, had ripped the hair from her scalp, causing her to tear up and Herold to laugh at the incident. If she had to rush out or couldn't come home, I fed him," Nash said. "It was her pet that she wanted for a companion. Travis, she said, was Herold's pet and not part of Desire Me Motors, the towing company Herold ran out of her home. "I do remember going to feed him a couple of times," she said. Nash told Oprah that taking care of the ape was not part of her job and she was scared of even being around the animal. The chimp's owner claims that Nash was her employee at the time of the attack and is entitled only to file a workman's compensation claim, which would greatly limit the amount of money she could receive. Nash has filed a civil suit against Herold seeking $50 million in damages for pain and suffering. I want to be independent but I don't want to be alone anymore," she said. She said she hopes to one day be out of the hospital and more independent. And sometimes other people might insult you." Nash said she wears the veil "so I don't scare people. When outside her hospital room she wears a hat and veil, usually made from a handkerchief attached the brim of a straw hat. I hope she has a good time there," Nash said.
"Her prom is coming up and I can't pick out a gown, so I really hope she picks out something appropriate to wear. Among the few regrets she expressed was her inability to help her daughter pick out a prom dress. Among the moments that she relishes is when her daughter crawls in bed with her and they hold each other.
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