"Oh, the Humanzee"

Lately, Simian-related stories seem to be all over the news.

Groundbreaking Research Has Scientists Talking With Apes


Humans 'learned to walk in trees'

Well, I guess with the tangential nature of human memory, these recent stories stirred my recollection of the story of the "Humanzee". This was from a documentary that I saw either on National Geographic or A&E or Animal Planet.

Anyway, I won't go into too many details about "Oliver the humanzee", though I will mention that the documentary concluded that Oliver was not, in fact, a humanzee, but, simply, a very unusual chimpanzee (though his appearance and behavior were both fairly compelling and his strong desire to mate with human females tended to make you suspicious, or, at the very least, slightly uncomfortable).

Here's more on the Humanzee topic if you're interested.