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
