human and chimpanzee is very similar. From the DNA sequence, the similarity between the two is 95% (the DNA coding similarity is as high as 99%). From the traceability of the unearthed human fossil , The evolutionary differentiation between humans and orangutans occurred about 6 million years ago, so scientists have always suspected that there must be a transitional race between humans and orangutans!
And since the last century, human scientists have been trying to cross humans with orangutan , in order to produce a kind of human being as powerful as the orangutan and have a certain communication foundation for use as a cool force. But after the 1930s, this experiment disappeared mysteriously, and there was no more information for a long time thereafter. When the public thought there was no more news, an amazing news suddenly broke out!
Oliver the orangutan was born
In 1960, the trainers Frank and Janet Burger bought a two-year-old chimpanzee Oliver from a local African , This unique looking chimpanzee comes from the Congo region (captured in 1958). It has less hair on its head, its mouth protrudes less forward, and it walks upright.
From the head alone, it looks a bit like a half-bald person, but more like an ape, and its standing posture is very elegant. In 1975, attorney Michael Miller (Michael Miller) saw the news and found two trainers and bought it for $8,000. Starting in the spring of 1976, Miller began to present at the banquet of the Adventure Club. The public shows Oliver.
Michael Miller and Oliver
In the second half of the same year, Miller was invited by Japan,Participated in a program recorded by Japanese TV station , which caused a sensation in Japan. In 1977, Miller handed over Oliver to Ralph Helfer, a small theme park owner in Buena Park, California. (Ralph Helfer).
Go to Japan exhibition Oliver
In the same year, Miller took Oliver to the United States and Japan, and there was an article published by the Los Angeles Times about Oliver may be a missing link or a chimpanzee. The article on the new subspecies has attracted continuous attention from the scientific community. Due to the insistence of the last owner, Bill Rivers, the Pennsylvania laboratory finally acquired it in 1989.
Oliver being shown
Oliver not only looks similar to humans, but also his voice is not as harsh as other orangutans, but feels more pleasing (Oliver still can’t speak), and training The experience of living with the teacher, he learned how to use tools, do simple housework, and even learned human habits such as drinking coffee, and he was very elegant in contact with ladies!
Oliver learned to smoke
It is also worth mentioning that it has been walking upright since the original animal trainer bought it, and it has no interest in female orangutans, but likes to be with human women Together, but never made excessive moves.
Janet Bo Grid and Oliver (first buyer)
Is Oliver a gorilla or a hybrid product of humans?
As early as 1977, the Los Angeles Times published an article that Oliver was the missing link between chimpanzees and humans. In fact, this is understandable, because in millions of years of history, there are so many members of the human race. Perhaps there are only two creatures that are so different between Homo sapiens and orangutans, and there must be members between the two.
Of course, there is no problem with this understanding, but it is a pity that no other orangutans similar to Oliver have been found in the Congo, and when Oliver was captured in 1958, it was just born, and its parents were not captured together.
However, some scientists disagree, because as early as the 1920s, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, a well-known expert in artificial insemination and animal hybridization in the former Soviet Union, had implemented humans and orangutans. Between hybrid efforts.
But the first experiment in West Africa ended in failure, and the second time Ivanov brought the orangutan back to the former Soviet Union in the Black Sea Sukhumi (Сухум) research institute. Between male chimpanzees and human females, and even among the recruited women, there were volunteers who wrote to Ivanov requesting experiments, but from 1928 to 1929, the orangutans that met the experimental requirements died unexpectedly.
Sukhumi (Сухум)
Ivanov planned to wait for the chimpanzees captured in Africa to arrive before conducting experiments, but in 1930 the Soviet secret police arrested Ivanov on charges of counter-revolution, a year later Ivanov died in Almaty from arteriosclerosis! So there was no news after that, but Western experts doubted whether Ivanov’s experiment was a success.
The truth is revealed, Oliver is just an orangutan
In 1977, when Oliver was participating in a program in Japan, Japanese animal experts collected some of Oliver’s tissues and found that it had 47 chromosomes, which looked very good. It's like a hybrid between humans and orangutans, but there is no evidence that humans and orangutans can give birth to offspring. Of course, there are two theoretical and ethical reasons for this.
However, after the Japanese inspection report was issued, it has been advertised under the name of 47 chromosomes during the tour. But in 1996, a geneticist at University of Chicago re-examined Oliver’s chromosomes.It was found that it was 48, not the 47 previously advertised, so I think the previous statement is not credible.
In addition, the University of Chicago also examined Oliver’s skull morphology, ear shape, and the formation of freckles and baldness, which are very similar to ordinary gorillas. In addition, according to the further published in the "American Journal of Anthropology" The DNA traceability test found that Oliver’s genes are the same as those of chimpanzees living in , Republic of Congo, Gabon and other parts of Central Africa!
Therefore, scientists believe that Oliver is just an ordinary chimpanzee. But Oliver lived about 55 years old, while the average lifespan of an ordinary captive chimpanzee is about 35 years,
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