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?
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.
Not since the Neanderthals left us
Neanderthals didn’t leave us; they merged with us. Neanderthal DNA is well represented in our current population.
Maybe there still are neanderthals but they’re just really good at hiding and are plotting to overthrow humanity
Keep talking like that and you too can become the Vice President’s favorite philosopher
That’s absolutely preposterous, I am still alive and my friends say I am one of them Neanderthals
There must have been a misunderstanding, when I said I want to “eat pussy”, this is not what I meant
There is a good reason for that image.
here be psychic dragons
Suddenly ing the cat takes on a whole new meaning
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.
“I did not have has any sexual relations with that cat”
“It depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is.”
Doubt
I’m not supporting beastiality here… BUT
I like big BUTs and I cannot lie
As other commenters point out, not since the extinctionof Neanderthals, Denisovans, etc. But even if it were possible, the hybrid would not be fertile: our chromosome 2 is a fusion of two chromosomes that are separate in other related species, so there’s no way meiotic crossover recombination could possibly work.
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.
We still have their genes, so we’ve got that going for us…
I’m fairly sure I got more Naendrathal genes than human. I have so much hair, it counts as fur :/
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: Female 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.
Jesus Christ
Welp. That’s fucking awful.
I’m gonna regret asking this, but is there a better source than The Sun?
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_SurvivalAlso 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, “They are taking my baby, you can’t do this!”
I assume that may be the hysterical crying in that video.
holy fucking shit
Tinder not working out as expected?
Why else would I ask that question? Completely unrelated but you won’t happen to have any goats nearby, would you?
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:
Welp, now I am curious. There are like 10 billion of us, this can’t not happen.
Because of that one caveman, we are all shamed forever.
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.
Excellent answer!
If such a thing was currently possible, you’d know about it.
Haha… Well put
No.
The biological definition of a species is “a group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring” (in other words, the offspring need to also be able to reproduce; there are instances, such as mules, where two species reproduce but the offspring cannot themselves reproduce)
I don’t think that definition matters, considering the fertility of offspring is irrelevant to OP’s question.
Furries_IRL 😞
Furries irl 😏
Your mom!
*sorry, 80s nostalgia hit hard for a second there.
At least wait till I ask a question about a cow or something
There used to be Neanderthals (homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and a few others, we basically interbred them out of existence.
“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.
bleak way of looking at it
in spartan voice THIS… IS… LEMMYYYYY!!
This is the worst thing I’ve read online this month, including the person who said “perchance” to me in a DM
While we did fuck them a lot, knowing us, I don’t think that’s what caused their extinction.
Not so sure, except for a last few holdouts in Spain about 40k years ago, who were probably whipped out by natural catastrophe along with regular humans in that area.
I think we kept diluting their gene pool by having sex with them and out breeding them.
With everything you know about humans and our history of causing mass extinction everywhere we settle, of racial violence and irrational fear of anything that is a little bit different, you really don’t think there were any other contributing causes to the mysterious extinction of EVERY SINGLE NON-HUMAN HOMINID ON THE PLANET?
What do you mean? We are still around.
