Came across this story of a very special chimpanzee.
Basically, listverse sums the story up as follows:

Let me tell you the story of Oliver the Chimp. In 1960, Oliver was acquired as a young animal by trainers Frank and Janet Berger. Supposedly, the chimp was caught in the Democratic Republic of Congo and sold on the exotic animal black market. In appearance, Oliver clearly stands out in a group of male chimpanzees, as he has many human-like features. He looks nothing like a normal Common Chimpanzee and holds a flatter face. Oliver is a habitually bipedal animal. He has always walked upright and never moved on his knuckles like other chimps. He holds a bizarre pointed ear shape, freckles and a bald head. The Berger’s raised Oliver until 1977, when he was sold to Ralph Helfer and put on public display in a sideshow. In a 2006 interview with the Discovery Channel, Janet Berger claimed that she sold Oliver after he started tying to mate with her.

This had led to the speculation that Oliver prefers human females over chimpanzees. In fact, other chimpanzees that have been placed in the same cage with Oliver avoid him at all cost. After spending seventeen years with the creature, Janet Berger believes that his physical and behavioral tendencies point to a different origin, perhaps a human-chimp hybrid. In the early 1980s, the Los Angeles Times did an extensive article on Oliver, marking him as a possible missing link or new sub-species of chimp. In 1989, Oliver was purchased by the Buckshire Corporation, a Pennsylvanian laboratory leasing out animals for scientific and cosmetic testing. During this time in his life, Oliver lived in a tiny cage and experienced rough handling. This eventually caused an extreme case of arthritis and muscular atrophy, so severe that Oliver’s limbs routinely tremble. The testing of his DNA has been an intense and controversial subject.

Supposedly, a test performed in the 1980s proved that Oliver contained only forty-seven chromosomes, instead of the normal forty-eight. However, this claim has not supported by scientific evidence and has been refuted by a geneticist from the University of Chicago, who tested Oliver’s blood and found that he had the normal forty-eight chromosomes. Since that time, Oliver’s DNA has not been tested. He will not be made available for any DNA style inquiries again. In 1998, Oliver was given a spacious, open-air cage at the Primarily Primates sanctuary in the US state of Texas. He was put under the temporary care of wildlife rehabilitator Lee Theisen-Watt, who was fired in 2007 for wrong doings. During the history of the Primarily Primates facility, they have undergone a series of legal battles, with a majority of the cases concerning PETA. Today, Oliver is still alive and living at Primarily Primates. Many pictures and videos of him exist on the Internet.

The last sentence was the stimulant for the hunt for more information on youtube.
So here's the link to the short documentary on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Y_-_mPy3s&feature=related

Check it out if you need a break from studying.

Anyway it was mentioned in the documentary that Man has an obsession with cross-breeding human and other species to create a hybrid species.
Perhaps it's not exactly an 'obsession' per se, but merely extreme dedication to the study of biology or rather erm, hybrid species to be specific...
This scientist mentioned that somewhere out there in the world, it is entirely possible to have a scientist who has already successfully inseminated a chimp with a human sperm and created a hybrid humanzee.
Considering how this idea piques the interest of a lazy ass like me, i'm pretty sure there are people who have gone all out on this idea. And this scares me.
What the hell do they do with the offspring after it is 'created'?
I mean, this humanzee, if in the case where they keep it alive on some remote island away from civilistion and run tests on it all its life, will there be a point in time when it matures and has someway or another understood that it was bred for a reason?
Ok, i hate to write about contentious stuff like these because i can never make a strong stand.
It's just that when i was watching the documentary, i naturally imagined myself as a humanzee. I don't know, but since i would most probably have inherited some 'human intelligence', i would rather die than live as a hybrid at the point of time in my life when i am more or less aware of my situation.
i think like that because i am human, as in i am a homo sapien and i know how a fellow homo sapien would feel if they were created. I have no empathy when it comes to ligers because i seriously do not know how lions or tigers feel or think.
yes, we are sentient creatures all the same but the idea of crossing a homo sapien with any other creature just puts me off.
the only time i will strongly object to the cross-breeding of other species is when i am fully aware of how they feel and think.
but then again, i don't know if i would object to the cross-breeding of dogs with lions or something else?
there are wolf-dog hybrids but it doesn't make me slam my table in a fit of anger.
maybe because these hybrids are highly sought after and well-taken care of?
they are treated like pets, as part of the family yadayada i.e, they are not treated any differently from domesticated animals.
hmmm but if a blooody scientist were to kidnap my heli and attempt to inseminate her with a wolf's sperms, i think i would chop off any part of the fella's body which has hair on. (in his case he would be lucky if he did brazilian waxing)

and then, i inevitably reach the topic of vegetarianism.
sigh. by right, we should be vegetarians.
ok I should be a vegetarian.
i mean i understand that pigs and chickens can really feel the pain when they are killed and it messes with their minds when they are made to stay in a small area with hundreds of others and when they witness how their friends get slaughtered.
in this situation, i sympathise with their plight. but honestly, as the days go by, the feelings erode away. perhaps i have yet to watch the video my friend told me to watch.
ok, but when it comes to dogs, i can never and will never approve of dog meat.
i once watched this video on youtube which featured the dog meat industries in china and korea. i will never forget those scenes man.
alright i understand it's partly because i have never eaten dog meat and it is not part of our culture, but when i see those dogs, i empathise with their plight.
i was taught in secondary school that 'sympathy' and 'empathy' mean vastly different things because when you sympathise with someone, it's more of pitying the person, but when you empathise with someone, you go down to his level and you really feel with him/her. (and assuming the above is right, HAHA, we move on...)
i suppose it has to do with me having a better idea of how dogs are able to think and feel.
though i can't understand them as well as many people are able to(i am envious of them and i will work harder), if i say that i wasn't able to see the sadness, the longing, the joy or sometimes the irritation in their eyes and body language, i would really be an object, a robot.
this little understanding came from observing them and being with them for quite a while so maybe if i go on a industrial attachment to a farm and witness everything firsthand, i may emerge as a vegetarian.
that is why i do not have enough resolve and conviction to be a vegetarian YET.
(also because when you put a roasted drumstick in front of me, i will completely forget the evil stuff, or rather, conveniently forget them)

alright i'm not going to check for grammatical or typo errors so pardon me if there are any.