Originally posted by DaveMoral
Problem is... these folks often don't realize that these chimps need to be with their own kind doing the shit that chimps still have the social
insticts to do.
Chimps are pretty awesome, but they can be savage as fuck too. In territorial disputes they'll sometimes rip the offending chimps or the offending
tribe's children limb from limb and cannibalize them. They still have millions of years of jungle instincts in them... it would take at least 10,000
years to breed that out, you like we have. Shit, we've domesticated dogs and cats, but they can go crazy too. The potential for harm from a house cat
is less because it's small... but dogs maim and kill people and children all the time.
The problem isn't the animal, so much as it is anthropomorphizing the animal. When you start attributing to it human qualities, one day you just might
be in for a rude awakening. You gotta respect the animal as an animal. |