And Now, the “Humanzee” or Chimpanzee/Human Hybrid
April 30th, 2008Via: Scotsman:
A LEADING scientist has warned a new species of “humanzee,” created from breeding apes with humans, could become a reality unless the government acts to stop scientists experimenting.
In an interview with The Scotsman, Dr Calum MacKellar, director of research at the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, warned the controversial draft Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill did not prevent human sperm being inseminated into animals.
He said if a female chimpanzee was inseminated with human sperm the two species would be closely enough related that a hybrid could be born.
He said scientists could possibly try to develop the new species to fill the demand for organ donors.
Leading scientists say there is no reason why the two species could not breed, although they question why anyone would want to try such a technique.
That is creepy and unethical! I hope it doesn’t happen.
I suppose the aim of such a perverted endeavor would be to breed a class of slave-laborers. Unlikely, but that’s really the only thing that readily comes to mind as to a reason why anybody would want to do such a thing.
Anyone remember Oliver the Humanzee? About 20 years ago he was touring the celebrity circuit with his owners. Eventually they just decided he was a hitherto unknown species of chimp, but for a while he had everyone going. I vaguely remember that interest in this story uncovered reports of Nazi and Chinese experiments that produced humanzees which were allowed to live until they were three months old.
Say hello to the future, Mr Bonzo.
no not slave labor, the article tells it like it is, they want to mass farm them for organs, organ transplants. They are trying to do this with pigs, essentially make pigs as human as possible to mass farm pigs for organ transplants.
Loveandlight,
It’s for the good of mankind, of course! Always is…
You need a humor tag, Kevin.
@Loveandlight:
We don’t need to engineer a slave class, we already have one, and its maintenance isn’t anything Them can’t handle.
Leaving aside for a moment any references to Charlton Heston finding the statue of liberty on the beach… 🙂
I’d imagine someone somewhere would find such creatures to be quite enticing as a soldier class. Chimps, unlike their cousins bonobos or even gorillas, are extremely aggressive. Add to that they are like 5 times stronger than a man and could potentially use their feet as hands to manipulate all sorts of weapons, vehichles etc. and you’ve got a super soldier. As a little bonus, they probably wouldn’t need to be conditioned as much as humans regarding brutality because it wouldn’t even be against their own kind (and I always imagined they’d simply use machines to get over that hurdle).
The only reason this might not happen is because too many stakeholders would be afraid the result would be a species superior to homo sapiens sapiens. But hey, I smell a Will Farrell/Vince Vaughn/Ben Stiller modern day three-stooges vehicle in the making.
Hmpf.
Sounds like some of the more pervers tendencies of misdirected human sex drive has already been happening. You know how some humans like to hump anything with an orifice? When I read this quote ” if a female chimpanzee was inseminated with human sperm the two species would be closely enough related that a hybrid could be born,” it means to means to me the scientists have already observed this love-er-ly pnenomenon.
And of course, after whatever the creature is, after seeing that successful sexual submission has occurred, whether a soldier in Iraq, a sheep on a farm, a chimpanzee in the wilderness, the great thought is to patent the process and make an industry of it. NO THANK YOU.
This is quite a sick post on my part. Sorry.
Eileen:
I’m no fan of bestiality, but I do recall reading that it is in fact more common than is generally realized (“than is generally realized” probably because most of us would rather not think about it too deeply :-P).
“I’m no fan of bestiality, but I do recall reading that it is in fact more common than is generally realized (”than is generally realized” probably because most of us would rather not think about it too deeply :-P).”
Sex between people and apes is not uncommon in west Africa. In fact, some leading AIDS researchers have posited that AIDS, originally a disease that afflicted apes, was first transmitted to humans when a man had sex with a mangabey in Leopoldville, Congo in the 1950’s.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/14/MN140641.DTL&type=printable