Ok, I am not supporting bestiality here. But, I just came to know about a Dogxim, a dog fox hybrid and I had known for a long time that horses and donkeys can breed (to produce a mule). So, I was just curious, can humans breed with any other animals closely related to us?

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
    44·
    1 month ago

    The wiki says it’s hard with chimps because we have one less chromosome than chimps. Down syndrome: “all my homes got extra chromies”. They have an extra chromosome. Ergo: down syndrome + chimp = hybrid chimpmanzee.

    • Zagorath
      71·
      1 month ago

      Yeah, I don’t think that’s how chromosomes work

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
        27·
        1 month ago

        Thats how down syndrome works. Look it up yourself, smart guy. People with down syndrome have 47 chromosomes instead of 46. Chimps have 48, so down syndrome people are one closer, by mutation. That means just one more mutation and we’re all set.

        Now start work on making a monkeyboy.

        • Zagorath
          5·
          1 month ago

          Are you really this fucking thick? There’s more to genetic compatibility than chromosome count. Otherwise we’d be seeing human–Reeves’s muntjac hybrids. Or chimp-gorilla.

            • Zagorath
              3·
              1 month ago

              Oh, so you were just being a dick for the sake of being a dick? That’s worse bro.

                • ZagorathEnglish
                  41·
                  30 days ago

                  Because it compares people with down syndrome to chimpanzees, and because it took a good faith serious discussion and made a mockery of it.

                  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
                    11·
                    30 days ago

                    Bro, humans are compared to chimpanzees. DNA wise were almost a banana as well. You’re getting butthurt on anothers behalf because of the fact that they have an extra chromosome? That’s literally what down syndrome is.

        • Mambert@beehaw.org
          2·
          29 days ago

          An odd pair of chromosomes makes it harder than being off by a pair. Mules are unbreedable due to their odd number of chromosomes.

          We have successfully bred with species further apart, including an alpaca and a llama.

          So yes all the science points to it being possible with humans, but ethically we can’t possibly do that.

          And it is not one more mutation to add an extra chromosome. It’s a loooot more.