Could a Gorilla and a human produce a child?

Question

I've heard there are ape men in the amazon, chilren raised by gorillas and was wondering this very question, the chances are very remote but is it possable?

Answer 1

Humans have 46 chromosomes, chimps & gorillas 48.

Interbreeding is INDEED possible, giving a zygote ( new first cell ) with 47 chromosomes.

This individual would encounter difficulties in gamete formation ( i.e. production of sperm/eggs ) due to the inability of splitting 47 chromosomes evenly, leading to probable infertility of the organism. However, the organism would indeed exist, and would be the human/monkey or human/gorilla equivalent of a mule ( which are the offspring of horses and donkeys, but are themselves infertile. )

To the fantastically erudite population of the "white powa" brigade, I would point out that humanity arose in Africa, so it really isn't appropriate to besmirch one's own ancestral heritage that way. Furthermore, if any of you "white powa" morons knew anything beyond how to hurt others and fight outside the pub on a friday night, you might have been party to the fact that a lack of diversity dooms a population to genetic stagnation and eventual extinction....ironic, isn't it? You'd advocate preserving a race by the only mechanism guaranteed to destroy it.......

It's rather telling, I feel, that none of you pale thugs has completed a university degree or been paid more than £6 an hour in your life.....yes, working at the chicken factory must be really challenging for you pure-bred chavs...

And for you Bible-Bashers out there - you have no place whatsoever in a scientific debate; had the church had its way, the only science we'd have would be how best to light fires to ward away the devil and burn heretics ( i.e. those who questioned the Biblical interpretation prevalent at the time )....in fact, it is a victory of science over the ***-brained unreason of people like you that the the internet, or computers, exist at all....

Answer 2

Firstly, there are no Gorillas or any other kind of ape in the Amazon or anywhere in South America, and never have been; Chimpanzees and Gorillas are African, Orang-utans and Gibbons are Asian.

However, the so-called anthropoid apes and humans do have a lot of DNA in common. The different number of chromosomes isn't necessarily a barrier - the Asian wild horse or Tarpan has a different number to the domestic horse, but they cross-breed.

My guess is that a chimp-human hybrid could be achieved, a gorilla/human less likely. The offspring would be probably infertile like that of a horse and donkey, or a lion and tiger.

There is not the slightest evidence that anybody has tried to do this, nor any conceivable scientific reason for doing so.

There was the stange case of a chimp called Oliver many years ago; he habitually walked upright, liked to smoke cigars, and preferred human company to chimps. His face was flatter, less protruding than typical chimps, who usually rejected him. There was therefore a suggestion that he was in fact a human/chimp hybrid.

He disappeared in the 1970s, but was found in a wildlife refuge in the USA in the late 80s, by which time DNA analysis was advanced enough to check. Oliver was clearly a chimpanzee, but possibly of a rare sub-species.

Answer 3

No, It isn't possible. The genus of the animals are different. The gorilla is actually an offshoot in the evolutionary tree of humans; they are not even in the same line of evolution. The are as different from humans as Macaques or Gibbons. Human chromosome count and gene structure is very different from gorilla. The gorilla egg will consider a human sperm as a foreign matter thus the receptors will not act. The same is true for the converse.

Answer 4

No.Scientsts have been trying to make this kind of cross species reproduction happen for a very long time.I read an article in Scientific American this years where they said that they were close but not yet.It has taken place in a few species but humans and gorilIas are too disimilar in their DNA make ups for this to happen.I suppose that it would be possible for other animals to raise a human but unlikely because humans require more teaching and nuturing than any other animal on the planet.Elephants are the only others that even come close.

Answer 5

The Amazon is in South America. Other than zoos or research labs, gorillas reside only in the jungles of Africa.

There are rumors of secret experiments conducted by various governments throughout the world, as far back as the 1800's, but if they ever succeeded the evidence has not seen the light of day!

Answer 6

My wife Gloria resembles a Gorilla if she forgets to shave for a week or so. She has never admitted it, but then I seldom go down to the basement these days and so rarely see her. However neither her mother or father are Gorillas and I'm sure her mother would know if she'd been impregnated by one. Of course they might have adopted her which would explain things. Gloria is a surprisingly good climber for an overweight woman in her fifties.. On reflection, I think I should get a zoologist round to examine her..

Answer 7

LOL i became like *facedesk after I first study the question yet you're being genuine. First, ligars (lions and tigers) and mules (horses and donkeys) are infertile. you won't be able to flow a ligar and a ligar and convey offspring (the danger of their chromosomes lining up wisely is so minute that it truly is seen not conceivable). So which animals can produce babies, that in turn may have more beneficial babies? Animals of an analogous species. in case you shop in concepts from bio type, organisms are prepared, in descending order, in: Kingdom, Phylum, type, Order, relations, Genus, Species. Zebras, donkeys, and horses are each and every of the genus Equus. Lions and Tigers are of an analogous genus Panthera. they could produce infertile offspring. Chimpanzees (with whom we percentage the most contemporary worry-loose ancestor out of each and every of the finished apes) are of the genus Pan. people are of the genus Homo. not an analogous. for sure, type would not confirm no matter if 2 species can make manageable offspring. it truly is any incorrect way round. the genuine reason is that once the chromosomes divide and recombine in the time of meitosis, they are misaligned. even in spite of the reality that we percentage ninety 9% of a chimp's DNA, we've an more beneficial chromosome (theory is that it truly is the chimp's 2d chromosome damaged in 2). similar DNA, different association = no babies.

Answer 8

Gorillas have 48 chromosomes, while humans have 46. We both have 22 autosomes.
Unless biotechnology suddenly finds a use for producing an animal that has - god forbid - human qualities, then there is no way that this godforsaken union would produce a viable pregnancy.

Answer 9

Definitely not.
They are different kinds of animals. Animals can only breed after their own kind.
Gorillas (or any other mind of monkey or ape) are not related to humans. The evidence is overwhelming - in spite of popular opinion. There is is much false propoganda - for example the model of Lucy in the Natural History museum in London has human like hands and feet, even though it is *known* from other autrolapithecine fossils that she would have had ape like hands and feet.

But check it out for yourself...
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/Anthropology.asp

Answer 10

anything's possible, but humans' dna is way dif from animals'. children raised by gorillas might eventually attempt to procreate with them but it is very doubtful that anything would come of it. the so-called ape men in the amazons are just humans raised by these animals not some kind of hybrid between humans and apes