Humanzee

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I was listening to WNYC's Radio Lab podcast last night (too lazy to link to it), an episode awhile back about human-gene-bending, Geeps, Ligers, Polizzlys and other hybrids in the life kingdom.. I decided to talk about it in my 'voice' lesson, where students are encouraged to talk freely about whatever they (or I) choose to talk about..

I was researching hybrid animals on wikipedia and found out about Oliver, a monkey that really resembles a young more muscular Sammy Davis Jr. And I'm gonna put the text from wikipedia right here so yall aint gotta open tabs to do it...:

Oliver was acquired as a young animal (around 2 years old) in 1960 by trainers Frank and Janet Berger. Supposedly, the chimpanzee had been caught in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire).

Some physical and behavioral evidence led the Bergers to believe Oliver was a creature other than a chimpanzee, perhaps a human-chimp hybrid: Oliver possesses a flatter face than his fellow chimpanzees; Oliver was habitually bipedal (before being struck with arthritis), never walking on his knuckles like his chimpanzee peers; and Oliver may have preferred human females over chimpanzee females. During a December 16, 2006 Discovery Channel special, Janet Berger herself claimed that Oliver was becoming attracted to her when he reached the age of 16. He mounted her and tried to mate with her. After he tried it several times it became apparent that Oliver was a threat to Janet, and had to be sold. Still, Oliver was not the clownish performer his chimp peers were, and other chimps avoided him. Some people claim he did not possess a typical odor common to chimpanzees.

bonkers!

**Also, a link to actual studies being done on creating a humanzee

**Other mammal hybrids