# Are baboon heart transplants real? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 26, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-baboon-heart-transplants-real/497746 "2009-05-26T23:25:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![natalie\_kiko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9e5f3/32.png) [@natalie\_kiko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/natalie_kiko)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-baboon-heart-transplants-real/497746/1 "2009-05-26T23:25:01Z")
I have a friend who claims his father has a baboon heart transplant, and his entire family goes along with it. I researched them and learned the longest person to live with one is 9 months. He also claims his father has “monkey rage” (which i couldn’t even find on the internet) where he acts like a baboon…I may be ignorant for asking this but are they pulling my leg or is this real? ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-baboon-heart-transplants-real/497746/2 "2009-05-26T23:33:18Z")
> [@natalie\_kiko](#): > > are they pulling my leg Yes, yes they are. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-baboon-heart-transplants-real/497746/3 "2009-05-27T00:49:27Z")
Even in the extremely unlikely event that he got a baboon heart, and is doing anything but lying in a hospital bed on the way to dying, he wouldn’t have any medical reason to act like a monkey. ---
**Author:** ![erleichda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4da419/32.png) [@erleichda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erleichda)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-baboon-heart-transplants-real/497746/4 "2009-05-27T03:01:02Z")
My sister has a pig’s bladder. But I think they are pulling your leg. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-baboon-heart-transplants-real/497746/5 "2009-05-27T05:06:18Z")
Pulling your leg. Ask him to show you his transplant scar (although he may have a cool sternum scar from other heart surgery). ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-baboon-heart-transplants-real/497746/6 "2009-05-27T05:29:08Z")
If the guy really does act like a baboon, I suspect it has more to do with his brain than his heart. ---
**Author:** ![Oglomott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oglomott/32/3543_2.png) [@Oglomott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oglomott)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-baboon-heart-transplants-real/497746/7 "2009-05-27T10:10:54Z")
When you said baboon heart transplant, I wasn’t sure if you meant someone received a baboon heart, or that a baboon performed the operation. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-baboon-heart-transplants-real/497746/8 "2009-05-27T12:57:26Z")
Didn’t I see that on an episode of “The Outer Limits”?