RE: The Gay Marriage Issue Misses the Point
January 19, 2013 at 8:43 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2013 at 8:46 pm by Violet.)
(January 19, 2013 at 8:20 pm)Joy Squeezy Wrote: I would need evidence. It's not just about strength. Pretty much everything is stronger than humans. I don't think chimps are remotely interested in humans sexually. Dolphins are a different matter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_(chimpanzee)
Brutal violence, overpowering, and partial consumption of adult human flesh, check.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...200829.htm
Alan Walker, though google gives me countless citations of this study, it's a pain in the ass to find. Close as i could get is this http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/59...1552488193
Check for having several times the strength of an average human.
As for rape, all you've got to go on is rumors.
example: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1...rapes.html (langur, not chimp)
However, monkeys have become a genuine problem in some places:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/world/...delhi.html
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/20...nkeys-fro/
Take it as you like, nature's still fucked up. And once again: these are not even claiming that one of the more intelligent apes are responsible (we're apes for instance, chimps are apes, sorry if I ever said monkey, it's american), but far less powerful monkeys.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day