Let's discuss and observe the apes of Africa and Asia.
I'm going to post some chimps because no one ever posts chimps here
>Ape threadClose enough to post homo genus, here's my boy Homo Georgicus my dear pongo, gibbon, pan, gorillae and bono frens.
Homo Floresiensis
>>5143967Yeah, what did Blumenbach meant by this, did he just imply them as primitive or cavemen like? He's a german from the 1700s. I don't know.
>>5143715>>5143717He's good, but he's not Great
>>5144945An ape is an ape, lesser or great.
>>5144495Academics have always tried to make mythological connections. Not inherently in error regardless.
>>5145179The mythological comparisons do make sense, Pan being the God of the Wild and all.
>>5143722(Another reconstruction)
>>5145468With how short they are, one must wonder if modern Indos have Floresiensis DNA.
My favourite great ape in Asia has to be the SEA female, if I were born 2 generations ago I'd likely be living in the jungle being exploited by a woman 20 years my junior with 13 siblings right now.
>>5145474Well, shortly after homo sapian arrived the last of Floresiensis disappeared shortly after and they already were under pressure by the environment removing what they thrived with. We have a bunch of traditional myths of short people stealing food if even some reasons for them being gone in said myths. I wouldn't exactly be surprised if I heard a tiny ethnic group in the mountains or islands pulled a Neanderthal/Denisova love game (like melanesians especially for that) on the Floresiensis way back and they have like a shred of it kept, but realistically, a lot of ethnic groups with extremely short statures stuck around to the modern day and some have ancestry we can tie to a split in an era like the middle ages in west central africa for example, but I am unaware of it for south asian pygmies and short ethnic groups, didn't dig that yet if we have genetic papers on it but will do. Did we sequence Floresiensis?
>>5145753Hell yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_jP4URomW4Very interesting video
>>5147324gurilla
>>5147325Indeed
>>5151755Man i wish i was cracking some nuts right now
why do some apes have white scleras and some don't? across all ape species sclera coloration varies a lot, but for what reason or purpose?
>>5151830It’s some kind of mutation
>>5153021https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-U5e9LR6E4
>>5143368Heh
Cousins have to support each other.
>>5155674I was surprised to find out that chimps hunt and eat mandrills, I guess strength and size matter more than canines.
>He still thinks apes are real
>>5155730God i don't know what it is about these old drawings of animals that make me feel all fuzzy inside
>>5155769Soul vs. soulless
Admire evolution's greatest triumph!
>>5156114Patas
>>5156114Are you saying it's a triumph we went from prehensile feet to our feet? Because I wish we still had them. I understand we wouldn't have evolved the way we did without them but still
If you had him as your uncle, how would you greet him? >>5156114I still wonder how that took place over time. Straightening of the back and the muscles and bones moving I get. But I have a lot of trouble understanding how the fingers became toes and the thumb's everything went that way. Feet are very weird. Convenient, fragile, weird. But definitely allowed for everything to happen after.
>>5158164>Look at these giants eating without harming anyone.>...>We have to wipe them out and put an end to this madness.
>>5158164Insane to think that gorillas would be considered mid-sized apes if this thing was still around
>>5158248Truly. That said considering the documentary I watched yesterday on giant animals extinct and alive semi distant related, both their now size capped cousins and the massive old ones were reffered to as giants in it. (Le Mystère des Géant is a fun watch, I recommend the movie and épisodes. Binged the show's dvds over two days.)
>>5148283This is the best one!
Home erectus
>>5143713>homo genus More like homo sexual
>>5143309utterly mogged by homos
>>5161934lol gays don’t mog shit
What type of ape is this?
>>5162519homo nihongo
>>5162519Homo sapiens
>>5162523nope
>>5143309
>>5162842>can't breath on open air and with its throat uncloggedThat's no ape... that's not even an amniote.
>>5162519homo sexo!
>>5152908Being pong is suffering...
>>5156612We could still use fewer, sturdier toes.
>>5160922ywnbara
>>5153748hey i recognize that gorilla
>>5166081He looks like he didn't need reminding of his FORMER student debt XD..
>>5143717>>5149616they're so silly looking, I love them
>>5143717As far as I'm concerned, all ape are "great" apes!
>Has entered thread
>>5166370
>Edo period Japan>everyone knows only one kind of primate: the japanese macaque>they know about gibbons from chinese texts, but nobody has actually seen one for generations>one finally gets brought to Japan in 1809 by traders>a Japanese painter who specialized in macaque paintings gets called in to do the first sketch and description of a gibbon A historical case of "new monkey just dropped"
>>5168222what if gurilla and chim could be friends?
