TIL In the 1920s Russian scientist Ilya Ivanov tried to create a human-chimpanzee hybrid. Both attempts at inseminating chimpanzees with human sperm and women with ape sperm failed.
The article specifically says he did not get to try ape sperm on human women. I know it takes away some of the shock value of your post.
Technically OP is grammatically correct...
The expirement failed because his orangutan died before he could get a sperm sample
Like, I've failed at my attempt at being the winning QB in the Super Bowl. Doesn't mean I lost a Super Bowl as QB
Like the attempt at doing it failed, it just failed before the first step was even taken.
Definitely confusing tho and you were right to clarify. I'm just being a nerd about it
It does say he was trying that too
In 1929, after returning to the Soviet Union, he attempted to organize a set of experiments involving nonhuman ape sperm and human volunteers but was delayed by the death of his last orangutan.
Alternate headline: Russian beastiality connoisseur fucked a chimp and jerked of an orangutan until it died. No pregnancies occurred
He should have stuck to more sensible experiments, like Comrade Lysenko who tried to teach communism to trees.
Aren't trees already communists?
They were just ignoring him because he was being condescending
Yeah, they invented communism
Still, a fun time was had by all.
Not the animals that died
The local cryptid in my home town was the "Humanzee" reported to have been created at the "secret lab" of a Yale psychologist/primatologist/eugenicist.
He tried twice and gave up? Bet if we try again today it would work, but them there is this "ethics" bs lol
In vitro... You can see if it works publish a paper not animals directly involved
mad scientists are not just in comic books, kids.. you don't even want to know what the Chinese get up to in their secret labs..
