Killer whale
A killer whale kills its trainer. Gee, I wonder how they came to be called Killer Whales? People who romanticize powerful animals, and project a human mentality onto them, are making a fundamental mistake. What philosophers call a category error.
The worst cases have occurred with large primates, chimpanzees in particular. They resemble us in many ways (humans and chimps have about 99% of their genetic material in common), but nevertheless they are what they are. Those cute baby chimps in diapers on TV are nothing like an adult male chimpanzee, a truly formidable creature that can rip a human being to pieces. Their muscle fiber is not like ours, giving them the upper body strength four times that of a human male.
This case is horrific, and it's not the only one of its type in the past few years. By pure chance I happened to see this woman, what's left of her, on Oprah, and it's something I wish I had not seen.
Another, different attack, this one involving a chimp raised from infancy like human child.
Byron
The worst cases have occurred with large primates, chimpanzees in particular. They resemble us in many ways (humans and chimps have about 99% of their genetic material in common), but nevertheless they are what they are. Those cute baby chimps in diapers on TV are nothing like an adult male chimpanzee, a truly formidable creature that can rip a human being to pieces. Their muscle fiber is not like ours, giving them the upper body strength four times that of a human male.
This case is horrific, and it's not the only one of its type in the past few years. By pure chance I happened to see this woman, what's left of her, on Oprah, and it's something I wish I had not seen.
Another, different attack, this one involving a chimp raised from infancy like human child.
Byron
posted by Byron | Thursday, February 25, 2010
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