![]() ![]() Whether or not this story of abduction is true, it is a fact that staring at apes can provoke them to violence.ĭodds ( 2006) compiled various early accounts, dating back as far as the sixteenth century, about marooned European women being impregnated by apes. Before he could ship in more, the Soviet Academy of Sciences heard about his plans to inseminate women in Africa without consent, and all support for the project was taken away on the grounds that it "ight undermine the trust of Africans in European researchers and doctors and make problematic any further expeditions of Russian scientists to Africa".īefore he found a new way to carry on his work, he was exiled in an unrelated purge of scientists by the government and died soon afterwards, completely monkey-manless.He told me in a conference with him that one of these Pongos took a negro boy of his, which lived a month with them, for they hurt not those which they surprise at unawares, except they look on them, which he avoided. ![]() Un/fortunately, no apes survived long at the ape nursery and, though he had women, he found himself out of sperm. Amazingly (again) - and it really would be amazing to see how this guy pitched, humanity clearly lost a great ad man to unhinged ape experiments - he was able to convince people to go along with it.įive women or more volunteered for his experiment. ![]() One way or another, he intended to get himself a hairy humanzee, so he began recruiting Soviet women who were willing to do their half for science. Thankfully, the French governor said no to the idea, and he traveled to Abkhazia, with 20 apes in tow. The plan was to pretend that the insemination of a chimpanzee was merely a medical examination, letting them find out months afterwards when they gave birth to an exceptionally hairy and suspiciously good at climbing baby. You might have hoped at this juncture he'd admit defeat, but instead Ivanov pitched an alternative (and considerably more horrific) approach: to take sperm from chimpanzees and implant it into African women without their knowledge or consent. He attempted this two more times without success. ![]() In 1926, he and Serge Voronoff transplanted a human ovary into a chimp, before attempting to inseminate her with human sperm. He arrived at the facility to do what he did best: transferring semen from one animal to another. It's also possible that the Bolsheviks were keen on showing what could be achieved through genetics, which fit in well with their idea of "positive eugenics". In his pitch, he stressed that it was an experiment that could prove Darwin's theory as to how closely related to apes we are, which would be a blow against religion. The man - who is the last person you'd want near chimpanzees - was told he could have access to all the chimpanzees he liked in a facility based in what was then known as French Guinea.Īmazingly he received $10,000 from the Soviet Financial Commission to carry out his work, before securing the approval of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, as well as senior members of the Bolshevik government. It was here, in 1924, he was given the opportunity to work on the hybridization scheme of his dreams. His chance finally came after the Russian revolution of 1917 while working at the Institut Pasteur. ![]()
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