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Ok, I am not supporting bestiality here. But, I just came to know about a Dogxim, a dog fox hybrid and I had known for a long time that horses and donkeys can breed (to produce a mule). So, I was just curious, can humans breed with any other animals closely related to us?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

There's a documentary called Revenge of "Billy the Kid" that doesn't go into too much detail, but might answer your question.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0102783/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

r/losercity leaking

[–] [email protected] 170 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tinder not working out as expected?

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why else would I ask that question? Completely unrelated but you won't happen to have any goats nearby, would you?

[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (21 children)

Homo sapiens are the last remaining species of hominina. Our closest remaining relatives, the Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos) diverged at least 6.5 million years ago. Though there is some evidence early hominina may have interbred with pan after the divergence as recently as 4 mya.

This is more recent than dogs and foxes by a long way, and about the same as donkeys and horses. That, plus chromosomal analysis and some other research suggests it could be possible for a human and chimp or bonobo to interbreed, though likely not create fertile offspring. However, there has never been a confirmed case of this occurring, despite multiple claims.

Edit: useful articles:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because of that one caveman, we are all shamed forever.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

We’re talking way earlier than cavemen. The last interbreeding between our ancestors and chimps’ ancestors happened (using the most recent estimate I could find) a million years before the least recent evidence of the use of any stone tools. This is not a human that would be recognisable at all as a human.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Welp, now I am curious. There are like 10 billion of us, this can't not happen.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Excellent answer!

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There must have been a misunderstanding, when I said I want to "eat pussy", this is not what I meant

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I thought you meant in the "eating the dogs and eating the cats" sense :3 /s

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

i didnt fuck my cat. i didnt cum on my cat. i didnt put my dick anywhere near my cat. Ive never done anything weird with my cats.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"I did not have has any sexual relations with that cat"

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is a good reason for that image.

here be psychic dragonsA cat is fine too

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

I just found this, so you'll have to read it too: https://www.the-sun.com/news/3657105/prostitute-orangutan-pony-tragic-story/

Summary:

TW: sexual animal abuseFemale orangutan named Pony was used as a prostitute for years. She was chained to a bed, shaved every other day leaving her with irritated, itchy, sore-covered skin. They also put make-up, perfume and jewellery on her, and taught her to perform sex acts. The local community didn't want to let her go because she was generating great revenue. In the end it took 35 armed police officers to rescue her.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm gonna regret asking this, but is there a better source than The Sun?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems like just some short interview by Vice: https://www.vice.com/sv/article/yo1-v14n10/

This comes from the foundation that rescued her, though it's mostly about the improvements: https://web.archive.org/web/20160302025529/http://orangutan.or.id/ponys-new-life-2/

Original link returns 404 now.
Wikipedia also lists that as their domain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo_Orangutan_Survival

Also this low quality footage: https://youtu.be/Qv8NlidN2wg?t=765 (should jump you to 12:45).

From Vice:

It was filmed by a local television crew and in the background of the film when we are unchaining Pony you can hear the madam crying hysterically, screaming, β€œThey are taking my baby, you can’t do this!”

I assume that may be the hysterical crying in that video.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Welp. That’s fucking awful.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Breed with? No, not since we out-bred and out-competed Neandertals. And Denisovans. And at least one other ancestral human subspecies in sub-Saharan Africa. So at least 3 ancient homo sapiens subspecies that we used to interbreed with, but none left now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

You will be assimilated... with fucking.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We still have their genes, so we've got that going for us...

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

Conventional prehistory says there used to be animals we could interbreed with, but that we in fact bred with them so much that the hybrids replaced the creatures made to get said hybrid.

These replaced peoples were, of course, designated members of the homo genus, which Homo Sapiens (the scientific name for humans) gets its name from, and they include things such as (using their common names, not their scientific names) Neanderthals (geographically found in Southern Europe), Denisovans (found mostly to the West, towards Asia), and Hobbits (yes, hobbits, they were found in the Pacific). Nothing of note happened in America.

The Neanderthals and the Denisovans are of particular note, as their territories overlapped commonly, and there are cave findings that show they themselves interbred with each other and produced perfectly functioning offspring. I can only hope when they were engaging in the act, they asked to mingle and ended it with "no homo".

There are, however, reports that, at the same time in prehistory, we did try to breed with other animals that haven't been replaced, typically the great apes, as evidenced by lice samples found in both us and them, but that this, quite expectedly, didn't lead to any hybrid outcomes.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (7 children)

There used to be Neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and a few others, we basically interbred them out of existence.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Interbred them out of existence" is sort of a bleak way of looking at it. For a lot of people, they're our ancestors. They're a part of human history and heritage.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your mom!

*sorry, 80s nostalgia hit hard for a second there.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

At least wait till I ask a question about a cow or something

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Not since the Neanderthals left us

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Neanderthals didn’t leave us; they merged with us. Neanderthal DNA is well represented in our current population.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

That's absolutely preposterous, I am still alive and my friends say I am one of them Neanderthals

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not supporting beastiality here... BUT

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If such a thing was currently possible, you'd know about it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I assume closely related hominids which are now extinct. Neanderthal DNA is present in current human strains, which means they didn't even speciate (though potentially successful gestation was rarer).

Why am I writing like an alien nerd observing humans?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There were rumors of a human/chimp hybrid decades ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee

Despite the existence of Oliver, it still seems unproven:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_(chimpanzee)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

The Nazis & the Japanese experimented with this as well. AFAIK neither faction ever achieved anything resembling success. Fertilization occurs, but then immediately stops as there's no compatibility, and the cells die.

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