jack hanna, the director emeritus of the columbus zoo, host of "jack hanna wild" on tv. and the kiddies love and adults love it a lot. we do it around the holiday season. we start with a camel? >> yeah. >> larry: we have never started with a camel. >> i like your jacket. >> larry: i'm hip, huh. >> you are hip. >> larry: tell us about this camel. >> this is a dromedary camel. it's the oldest animal in the world. thousands and thousands of years. they raise them. the camel can survive in deserts, several weeks without water. the fat is stored in its hump. some people think it's water. the sandstorms in the desert get real bad. the animals eyes have two eyelids so the sand can't get inside their eyes, or their ear drums. for a person that have camels in the middle east or austral australia -- by the way, all camels are mostly domesticated. this is one hump for a dromedary camel and two humps for the other camel. it's used for transportation. it's used for food if the camel dies. that fur is used for coats. the bones in the camels are used for knitting needles, weapons. even

judy and jack hanna. as we keep the victim of this tragedy in our thoughts and hearts, jack, could this have been prevented? >> well, it could have been prevented. i must go back quickly to 1973 in tennessee when i had an african lion. it took an arm off a little boy. i had to get that arm. i've done this for 40 years and when you have a chimp, they're a very complicated animal. they're one of the great apes. they live in a family structure and when someone has a chimp and it ages like this, as you know, the lady came in with her haircut, this chimp probably felt threatened somewhat. with chimps in the wild go after someone, they rip off in a dominant male, the hands, the eyes, even the testicles. with the chimp was doing was a natural thing, but with a chimp that age, having it in a home is like having a loaded weapon. >> i agri. here are some details and perhaps you could comment. harold, the woman who kept the woman as a pet has speculated the chimp was trying to protect her and attack nash because she

judy clinical psychologist and jack hanna, famed animal expert. jack, great to have you here tonight. as we keep the victim of this horrific tragedy in our hearts and in our thoughts, jack, could this have been prevented? >> well, it could have been prevented. i must go back quickly to 1973 in tennessee when i had an african lion. i raised lions for zoos and it took an arm off a little boy. i had to get that arm. i've done this for 40 years and when you have a chimp, they're a very complicated animal. they're a manmal, obviously. they're one of the great apes. they live in a family structure and when someone has a chimp and it ages like this, as you know, the lady came in with her hair cut, even though she had been there before, this chimp probably felt threatened somewhat. it went after her. with chimps in the wild go after someone, the first thing they do is rip off to the dominant male the hands, the eyes and even the testicles. what the chimp was doing was a natural thing it was doing, but a chimpanzee at that age having it in a home is like ha

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we invite them on to tell their side but jack hanna, that does happen quite often, doesn't it, where somebody has a wild animal that's not supposed to be a pet, keeps them as a pet, and then they try to sedate them to keep them sort of under control? >> yes, i've heard that, correct. for pets, right. but you know, like you said, who knows how xanax, i think that was the drug they said was used, is going to react on a wild animal like a chimpanzee. some people try to make the chimp part of them, whether it's dressing up, riding lawn mowers, drinking, eating, whatever it might be in their home. that's not what a chimpanzee does, obviously, where they live in the wild. >> i wanted to take exception -- >> hold on. mark, go ahead, please. >> i need to take exception to her calling this a freak accident. first of all, we know that earlier, in 1996, this particular chimpanzee bit a neighbor's hand. he reported it to police. apparently he claims they didn't do anything. the police say we don't have any record of it. but at least the owner of the chimp was clearly on notice that this could be