Ancient humans liked to monkey around.

steenkh said:
I do not see the interbreeding between early hominids and early chimps as being so strange. After all, they had just separated, and probably looked a lot alike.
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Hey, when it's last call......
 
Gives new meaning to the term 'hot monkey sex'.

Yeah, yeah, they aren't monkeys...it's a fuggin joke, people.

I wonder if any of them were gay, though. Are there any reports of gay chimpanzees? Or any other primate?

Just curious.
 
I am operating of the top of my head on this one but I seem to remember that in the early days of the aids epidemic, suggestions were made by involved scientists that human-ape sexual contacts may have been involved in the early stages of its' developing in humans. As regards the prehuman/chimpanzee thing, I suspect the differences in the early break were comparitively minor and would not of necessity prevented genetic exchange - slave-traders/owners often considered slaves to be less than human but....
 
Almo said:
How does tough differ from hardy?
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The way I was thinking of the words was tough as in hard-working, durable; hardy as in generally healthy and sound of body.

But I like Soapy's answer better. =^_^=

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Q: What prominent faith healer's mother was a jenny and father was a stallion?

A: Ben Hinny.

[edit edit] Not that there's anything wrong with that. As a skunk, I have no problem with equines. It's the faith healing schtick that bugs me.
 
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There's a Far Side cartoon that has a male and female chimp sitting in a tree with the female grooming the male. She has found a blond hair and says, "Huh, a blond hair. Conducting some more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?!"

Apparently, Goodall's "people" got pissed off at this cartoon and demanded an apology from Gary Larson. The funny part was that Jane Goodall hadn't even seen the cartoon and when she eventually did, she found it hilarious.
 
I'm not sure if this has been proved beyond a doubt, but I think AIDS is believed to have begun when humans ate some other primate that had a varient of one of the Simian Immunodeficiency viruses, which are common in primates and not so serious as human AIDS.

According to this site the closest SIV match to HIV was found in chimps. A lot of attention has also been given to the Green Monkey virus, but it looks like scientists are leaning towards the Chimp verison, or maybe a cross.

In theory this virus could have been sexually transmitted, but it's more likely that it was eating. The likelyhood of actually getting a chimp to cooperate seems low.
 
JamesDillon said:
Given my rather cynical opinion of human nature, I have to think that if such a thing were possible, someone would have demonsrated it by now.
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While my opinion of human nature is also pretty cynical, I actually wouldn't be surprised if it hadn't been tried (or at least, not often enough to prove anything.) Chimps are both rare and immensely strong in comparison with humans, after all, and in general, if human males are going after an...err...relationship with another species...my impression (based on no observational data whatsoever, I hasten to add!) is that they go for something easily controllable that doesn't fidget and is easy to get.

To put it crudely, there are lots of sheep and you can make 'em hold still, whereas it's hard to find a chimp and they'll break you in half if they don't like it.

As for t'other way around, while there's one documented case of an orangutan male raping a human that I know of, I'd guess that contact between the species is so limited that the issue doesn't come up all that often.

I think it's probably unlikely the two can interbreed, mind you, but I don't know if I believe it's been tried very often in the field, as 'twere.

Not that I'm suggesting anybody try.
 
So there was this research lab in, let's say, Stanford, looking into the genetic similarities between chimps and humans. They had always assumed that, since the two populations did not interbreed, that they could not interbreed. Then a lowly undergrad research assistant questioned this assumption, and they were forced to admit it had never been tested. Of course, for purposes of the story they weren't interested in whether this could be done in vitro, but rather the old-fashioned way. None of the researchers could stomach the idea (picky, picky), and they figured they would have to offer a fairly substantial payment in order to attract a "volunteer". So they put an ad in the local paper: "Wanted: Man to have sex with chimpanzee. $2,000." A couple of days later, they get a phone call from an interested man, who says "I just have three requests: First, I gotta have a couple of beers. Second, I get to choose the chimp. And third, you're gonna have to give me a couple of days to come up with the two grand."
 
Mercutio said:
So there was this research lab in, let's say, Stanford, looking into the genetic similarities between chimps and humans. They had always assumed that, since the two populations did not interbreed, that they could not interbreed. Then a lowly undergrad research assistant questioned this assumption, and they were forced to admit it had never been tested. Of course, for purposes of the story they weren't interested in whether this could be done in vitro, but rather the old-fashioned way. None of the researchers could stomach the idea (picky, picky), and they figured they would have to offer a fairly substantial payment in order to attract a "volunteer". So they put an ad in the local paper: "Wanted: Man to have sex with chimpanzee. $2,000." A couple of days later, they get a phone call from an interested man, who says "I just have three requests: First, I gotta have a couple of beers. Second, I get to choose the chimp. And third, you're gonna have to give me a couple of days to come up with the two grand."
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Was he from Alabama?
 
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