🧵 Hey, does anyone know if they ever froze any of Kanzi's sperm?
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 04:00:00 UTC No. 16165205
Because he's maybe one of the most remarkable great apes in history and we should probably be trying to make more. If you don't know, Kanzi is a now 40 year old male bonobo that has the most advanced human speech recognition ever recorded. As in we can talk to him. And not in a fake made up Koko the gorilla sense, like he genuinely has a vocabulary of around 3000 English words. He's currently 40 and that's the average life expectancy for a great ape like him living in captivity, so I'm curious if anybody knows if someone saved his sperm or his dna or something because time is kind of running out. Also when you google the phrase "kanzi bonobo sperm" it really doesn't come back with helpful results.
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 05:46:19 UTC No. 16165320
>>16165205
Just call the zoo and say you really want his sperm
Anonymous at Wed, 8 May 2024 21:29:04 UTC No. 16166426
>>16165205
I googled that and I got
https://www.apeinitiative.org/advan
>At Ape Initiative, Kanzi and the other male bonobos are being trained to provide voluntary semen samples using an artificial swelling device that closely mimics a female bonobo’s external genitalia.
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 04:13:07 UTC No. 16166821
>>16166426
I mean it sounds kind of gross except if you grew up on a farm or work as a dog breeder or something, in which case- yeah, that's how you have to do that. It is nice to hear that they're preserving it so they could potentially make more down the line, because based on everything I've read about him, he seems like he's genuinely a very one of a kind, once in a century kind of apes. The rest of the apes don't seem to grasp language at nearly the same level he does.
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 04:29:01 UTC No. 16166829
>>16165205
Bro should have used his language to ask for some finasteride
Anonymous at Thu, 9 May 2024 22:26:32 UTC No. 16168091
>>16166829
>>16166829
lmao looks like his linguistic abilities ere not enough to keep him from getting dabbed on by randos on a mongolian basket weaving forum