pontius
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either I slept through this part in science class, or it was never taught, or something. but I'd find it almost unbelievable, if they didn't pass it off as something that actually happened and common knowledge.
if you've not watched this show "Monster Quest", it's a show where they go looking for evidence of otherwise mythical animals like Big Foot and Loch Ness Monster. anyway, I'm watching the episode on the "Russian Man/Ape" or whatever it is and they're talking about the chances that 2 related animals but with different DNA can mate and have offspring (like humans/chimps), and they're talking about mules, ligers, zebra/donkeys, etc etc.
then they start talking about transplants, and this comes up......
in the 60s or 70s, some surgeon removed the head off a brain-dead monkey and replaced it with the head of an otherwise normal monkey (I say "otherwise normal" as it was otherwise normal except for having it's head removed). they attached the healthy monkey's arteries, spinal chord, etc to the body of the brain-dead monkey and the new animal GAINED CONSCIOUSNESS. it breathed, ate, drank, looked at the people, and bit one of the worker's hand. they showed video of it and they were suctioning blood out of it's mouth and nose (though you could not see the neck area). they said it was real and did not pass it off as anything but real. they did not say how long the monkey lived (though I doubt it could've been long), but said the experimentation was stopped almost immediately due to questions of ethics.
anybody heard of such a thing as this? I have never imagined that something like a head transplant could actually take place. it showed the surgeon who did the transplant but I didn't get his name. anybody know who I'm talking about?
if you've not watched this show "Monster Quest", it's a show where they go looking for evidence of otherwise mythical animals like Big Foot and Loch Ness Monster. anyway, I'm watching the episode on the "Russian Man/Ape" or whatever it is and they're talking about the chances that 2 related animals but with different DNA can mate and have offspring (like humans/chimps), and they're talking about mules, ligers, zebra/donkeys, etc etc.
then they start talking about transplants, and this comes up......
in the 60s or 70s, some surgeon removed the head off a brain-dead monkey and replaced it with the head of an otherwise normal monkey (I say "otherwise normal" as it was otherwise normal except for having it's head removed). they attached the healthy monkey's arteries, spinal chord, etc to the body of the brain-dead monkey and the new animal GAINED CONSCIOUSNESS. it breathed, ate, drank, looked at the people, and bit one of the worker's hand. they showed video of it and they were suctioning blood out of it's mouth and nose (though you could not see the neck area). they said it was real and did not pass it off as anything but real. they did not say how long the monkey lived (though I doubt it could've been long), but said the experimentation was stopped almost immediately due to questions of ethics.
anybody heard of such a thing as this? I have never imagined that something like a head transplant could actually take place. it showed the surgeon who did the transplant but I didn't get his name. anybody know who I'm talking about?
