Oliver the Chimp, a "Humanzee"

Solving the mystery of the “humanzee”:

YouTube Preview Image

(the other parts are on youtube)

This entry was posted in Evolution, Videos, Weird. Bookmark the permalink.

12 Responses to Oliver the Chimp, a "Humanzee"

  1. LRA says:

    Yes, Oliver (who retired to Texas, btw) had a mitochondrial dna disorder.

  2. Siberia says:

    Oh yes. I saw in TV the other day this girl who was 29 and looked like a baby – literally. She didn’t grow, didn’t develop, didn’t walk (but she did crawl and could stand holding on furniture), her face was deformed… my first thought was “wtf, human/ape hybrid”, because her behavior was almost… apelike, y’know? Turns out she had a severe thyroid problems, and being born of illiterate, very poor people (and I do mean very) in the backwaters of society, she was never diagnosed or treated. Sad stuff.

    • Custador says:

      Sounds like hypothyroidism. It’s quite common, and the sad part is it can be treated with a readily available hormone treatment called Thyroxin which is exactly the same hormone that a normal thyroid gland produces anyway.

  3. David says:

    Whoa, did the pianist really say that upon seeing Oliver aggresively mount Janet, he resolved to buy Oliver and brought his mother to meet him?

  4. tysdaddy says:

    I had some time to kill, so I watched the whole thing.

    Fascinating! The ending was chilling . . .

  5. Pingback: Humanzees « Robert Lindsay

  6. Korny says:

    I havnt watched the rest, just this one clip, but I found the idea really creepy.

  7. faithnomore says:

    Fascinating!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>