Tag Archives: chimpanzee
The Wild Wild West became my favorite program when I was in my pre-teens. By that time, it was in re-runs. In one episode – “The Night of the Simian Terror”1 –Dr. Sigmund Von Liebeg (played by actor John Abbott) was a family doctor who in younger life believed “that Given the same environment as man, an ape can attain the same degree of human development.” Von Liebeg raised a gorilla along with a boy he had taken in who…..
A recently aired Mysteries at the Museum episode – titled “Mysteries at the Kremlin” – featured a segment about Russian scientist Ilya Ivanov cross breeding animals using artificial insemination.1 Ivanov was a pioneering scientist. The segment describes how he crossed a zebra and a donkey and got a zedonk.2 But the story goes on to describe how Ivanov tried to cross humans with chimpanzees. As nutty as this sounds to me and I think most people with common sense,…..