# Has there ever been an animal-human hybrid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 20, 2004, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143 "2004-05-20T07:03:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/21 "2004-05-21T00:00:04Z")
…So the scientists place an ad in the paper: $5000 TO MATE WITH APE. They got one response, who specified that, “First, the children must be raised Catholic. Second, my mother must never know. Finally, I want to pay in installments.” ---
**Author:** ![arnex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@arnex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arnex)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/22 "2004-05-21T04:33:46Z")
You and me and Oliver ain’t nothing but mammals. But let’s not give undue credence to outlandish suppositions about our respective interrelationships like they do on the Discovery Channel. /Jimmy Pop Ali ---
**Author:** ![Satyricon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@Satyricon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satyricon)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/23 "2004-05-21T05:13:45Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > Am I the only person who read the title and had to stifle the urge to write, “But humans _are_ animals, so ‘animal-human hybrid’ makes no sense!”? Actually, I quite agree. The only problem is that a lot of people tend to think humans are superior to our other relations (I don’t think so at all). So I chose the “easy” wording. I suppose “interspecies hybrid” would have been more accurate… ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/24 "2004-05-21T05:19:30Z")
> [@Lobelia Overhill](#): > > what about going all Jurassic Park and using humans as surrogates for Neanderthals? How different was their DNA from HomoSapiens? Not very. The little DNA testing that has been done showed (IIRC) that Neanderthal DNA had about 4x the difference from Modern Sapiens that one would typically find beteween two Modern Sapiens. I suspect that the surrogate issue wouldn’t be a problem at all. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if it were medically possible for a human woman to be surrogate mother for a chimp fetus. Cross-species surrogates are commonly used in cloning rare mammals. Wow… has cloning become so common that I just said “commonly used”? ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/25 "2004-05-21T05:19:56Z")
In thousands of years of human existence, I find it hard to believe that nobody’s ever fucked a chimpanzee. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/26 "2004-05-21T05:48:18Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > In thousands of years of human existence, I find it hard to believe that nobody’s ever fucked a chimpanzee. Not speaking from experience or anything, but I don’t think they’re as “compliant” as, say, sheep are. 🙂 But if a human/chimp hybrid were possible, the fusion of the egg and sperm would probably need a little help from the lab guys. What’s hard to beileve is that no sicentist anywhere seems to have tried… ---
**Author:** ![Mesquite-oh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Mesquite-oh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mesquite-oh)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/27 "2004-05-21T06:56:01Z")
I am not sure if this was mentioned in any of the previous links, but do y’all remember the strange sight of a hairless mouse with a “human” ear growing out of its back? Not exactly a human/other animal hybrid, but still interesting: [http://www.pbs.org/saf/1107/features/body.htm](http://www.pbs.org/saf/1107/features/body.htm) > **[Wild Things: The Ear Mouse](https://www.kidzworld.com/article/1219-the-ear-mouse)** > > The mouse that looks like it has a human ear growing on its back doesnt belong in the circus or to some mad scientist. Doctors are trying to regrow ears for people who dont have them, ---
**Author:** ![heresiarch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@heresiarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heresiarch)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/28 "2004-05-21T10:27:45Z")
Sorry to say, but your teacher is a loony. It’s sad that the youth of our nation is being exposed to such irresponsible foolishness. Everybody knows that the only human-animal hybrid is [Bat](http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/) [boy](http://www.who2.com/batboy.html). And he wasn’t the result of any government experiment - he was found living in a cave. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/29 "2004-05-21T12:29:36Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > Not speaking from experience or anything, but I don’t think they’re as “compliant” as, say, sheep are. 🙂 A dead chimpanzee is. ---
**Author:** ![Satyricon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f05b48/32.png) [@Satyricon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satyricon)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/30 "2004-05-21T13:44:09Z")
> [@KidCharlemagne](#): > > A dead chimpanzee is. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/31 "2004-05-21T15:20:11Z")
> [@KidCharlemagne](#): > > A dead chimpanzee is. :Tweeeeeeeeeeeeeet: :holds up yellow card and indicates foul on **KidCharlemagne** : ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/32 "2004-05-21T18:43:05Z")
Pig and elephant DNA just won’t splice. Haven’t you heard that song by Loverboy? BTW, are there any pictures of Oliver? ---
**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/33 "2004-05-21T19:13:36Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > BTW, are there any pictures of Oliver? There are a two [here](http://www.rotten.com/library/cryptozoology/humanzee/), although some of the supporting material on the page may not be work-safe (references to an African woman being paraded around as half-ape due to exaggerated physical characteristics - it IS [Rotten.com](http://Rotten.com), after all). ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/34 "2004-05-21T21:03:51Z")
Here’s an oldie: An ant pulls a thorn out of an elephant’s foot, and the elephant asks the ant if there’s anything she can do in return. “You can let me have sex with you”, replies the ant. The elephant laughs to herself, and says, “Sure, knock yourself out.” So the ant climbs up the elephant’s backside and gets busy. Meanwhile, a monkey sitting in a nearby tree sees the whole thing and starts laughing and throwing coconuts at the elephant. One of the coconuts hits the elephant square in the head. The elephant says, “Ow!” “Take it _all_, bitch!”, says the ant. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/35 "2004-05-22T00:34:55Z")
> [@arnex](#): > > You and me and Oliver ain’t nothing but mammals. > But let’s not give undue credence to outlandish suppositions about our respective interrelationships like they do on the Discovery Channel. > > /Jimmy Pop Ali I should have mentioned earlier that this is one of the funniest things I ever read. I laughed loudly at work. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/36 "2004-05-22T02:00:44Z")
Then there was Liver Fluke Guy on the X-Files…partly human. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/37 "2004-05-22T04:52:27Z")
> [@heresiarch](#): > > Everybody knows that the only human-animal hybrid is [Bat](http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/) [boy](http://www.who2.com/batboy.html). And he wasn’t the result of any government experiment - he was found living in a cave. God I love the Weekly World News. Their homepage (the first link you posted) currently features a reader survey. > [@](#): > > Would having access to time machines change your daily routine? > > - yes, certainly > - no, not at all > - not sure yet > > What sort of television programming exerts mind control? > > - reality shows > - sitcoms > - crime dramas > - game shows > - soap operas > - after-school specials ---
**Author:** ![ambushed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ambushed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ambushed)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/38 "2004-05-22T06:05:05Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > I’ve always found DC to be commercial driven (enterrainment), but never at the level of National Enquirer. > A little kick-the-dog going on here, perhaps? > Peace, > mangeorge Comparing the Discovery Channel to the National Enquirer is insulting to the National Enquirer. DC and it’s other half-breed siblings primarily pander to ignorant “New Age” yahoos. There are **far** many more such cretinous yahoos out there than critical thinkers, on _both_ sides of the TV screen. Every UFO show on the DC is at least subtly pro-extraterrestrial-spacecraft. Every ghost show on the DC is at least subtly pro-ghost. Every psychic show on the DC is at least subtly pro-psi. Also, let’s not forget that critical thinkers are less likely to let advertisers influence their choice of toothpaste, soft drinks, or Christian rock bands, but that’s ultimately what TV is all about. Intelligent, scientifically literate thinkers are too small an audience to bother targeting. (Read Hofstadter’s classic _Anti-Intellectualism in American Life_ to learn why). I’ve always felt that it _should_ be called the Mostly Bullshit Channel. I find it deeply offensive that they so greedily promote such misleading, pseudo-scientific claptrap to those few semi-yahoos among the crowd who are intelligent and rational enough to seek out scientific programming (yes, even _entertaining_ scientific programming) but are, as yet, unable to recognize science from pseudo-scientific crackpottery. They’re ripe for the picking, and the Mostly Bullshit Channel doesn’t hesitate to harvest them. It’s despicable. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/39 "2004-05-22T09:43:05Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Then there was Liver Fluke Guy on the X-Files…partly human. that was an icky icky episode ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143/40 "2004-05-22T20:15:58Z")
> [@ambushed](#): > > Comparing the Discovery Channel to the National Enquirer is insulting to the National Enquirer. > > DC and it’s other half-breed siblings primarily pander to ignorant “New Age” yahoos. There are **far** many more such cretinous yahoos out there than critical thinkers, on _both_ sides of the TV screen. Every UFO show on the DC is at least subtly pro-extraterrestrial-spacecraft. Every ghost show on the DC is at least subtly pro-ghost. Every psychic show on the DC is at least subtly pro-psi. > > Also, let’s not forget that critical thinkers are less likely to let advertisers influence their choice of toothpaste, soft drinks, or Christian rock bands, but that’s ultimately what TV is all about. Intelligent, scientifically literate thinkers are too small an audience to bother targeting. (Read Hofstadter’s classic _Anti-Intellectualism in American Life_ to learn why). > > I’ve always felt that it _should_ be called the Mostly Bullshit Channel. I find it deeply offensive that they so greedily promote such misleading, pseudo-scientific claptrap to those few semi-yahoos among the crowd who are intelligent and rational enough to seek out scientific programming (yes, even _entertaining_ scientific programming) but are, as yet, unable to recognize science from pseudo-scientific crackpottery. They’re ripe for the picking, and the Mostly Bullshit Channel doesn’t hesitate to harvest them. > > It’s despicable. Your first sentence cast serious doubt over the entire content of the next three paragraphs. Exposure can spark interest, which can lead to investigation, which can in turn foster knowledge. What’s despicable about that? The fact that a bunch of people earn a living priducing the “claptrap”? _How_ can one insult the National Enquirer? Who’s right to exist I also support with great enthusiasm. I do dearly love the First Ammendment. The Great Equalizer. 😉 BTW; I neither read NE, nor watch DC. But you certainly may. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-there-ever-been-an-animal-human-hybrid/246143.md?page=3)