Oliver the Chimp, a “Humanzee”

By Daniel Florien on June 29, 2009 in Evolution, Videos, Weird.

Solving the mystery of the “humanzee”:

(the other parts are on youtube)


11 Comments

  1. LRA
    June 29, 2009 at 4:13 pm

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

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  2. Siberia
    June 29, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    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.

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    • Custador
      June 30, 2009 at 8:51 am

      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.

      Reply
  3. David
    June 29, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    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?

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  4. tysdaddy
    June 29, 2009 at 6:59 pm

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

    Fascinating! The ending was chilling . . .

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  5. Korny
    June 30, 2009 at 4:04 am

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

    Reply
  6. faithnomore
    June 30, 2009 at 8:42 pm

    Fascinating!

    Reply

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