Planet of the Apes Theoretical Question

[Gamma Ray]

If we discovered talking apes on Earth, how do you think they would be treated? As a threat? Welcomed?

 

[POWdER-man]

"They took our jaorbs!"

 

[Erzengel]

Before I read the original post, the initial answer to what I thought the question was going to be was, "Yes it would indeed be hot to make it with one of the apes."

 

[SuperFerret]

If we discovered talking apes on Earth, how do you think they would be treated? As a threat? Welcomed?

As a threat. Just like we treat anything different, and likely how they'd treat us.

 

[Hobgoblin]

They would be rounded up and disected to see how they are so different. Animal rights activists would protest and a whole legal and moral mess would erupt. Regardless, they wouldnt like humans much after that.

 

[Wolfwood]

I imagine things would go semi-okay, until the first one started throwing their feces around.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

We'd be fascinated with them at first but after the novelty wore off they'd be put on reservations or in a special zoo. But it depends on their IQ. If they had an above average IQ they'd probably spend their days on a college campus participating in studies. They would be subjected to humans who hated them and teased them. Animal right activist would treat them like prophets though.

 

[SuBe]

There would be a slew of new Planet of the Apes movies, but their society would use them as Political Propaganda.

Grogg would win.

 

[LOBO3315a]

In all honesty the only things keeping the Mountain Gorrila from being the dominant species on the planet is a well-developed frontal lobe, an opposible thumb, and speech. They would be a threat if they did anything other than parrot the sounds they heard, speechwise. Sad, but true.

 

[SuperFerret]

No, they wouldn't. Mountain gorillas are mostly vegetarians, and unlike other primates, namely chimps, they're not aggressive. Look at human history, innovation and progress often comes as a result of war. If any of the other apes were to become dominant, it would be the ones that regularly carry out wars, which means chimpanzees.

 

[Motown Marvel]

i think we'd get'em stoned and watch wizard of oz set to dark side of the moon.

 

[SuperFerret]

You can do that with non-talking primates.

 

[Victarion]

Women would wonder if their ***** were big and sleep with them.

 

[LOBO3315a]

The needs for advanced communication could be theorized as a necessity for successful hunting. Everyone has to be on the same page if you want to eat meat. If you have a talking Mountain Gorilla, his need for speech would have arisen from hunting. You don't need to talk to be a sucessful plant grazer. Since Mountain Gorillas are on several magnitudes larger and stronger than Chimps, I would say a talking Mountain Gorilla, given the example above, would be a far more serious threat physically than a talking Chimp. However, given that Chimpanzees are generally three times stronger than a Human, our chances of survival as a race would be questionable at best if they gained the ability to talk as well.

 

[B.A. Baracus]

They would be rounded up and disected to see how they are so different. Animal rights activists would protest and a whole legal and moral mess would erupt. Regardless, they wouldnt like humans much after that.

This. Sadly they'd be cut to pieces. Just like any aliens, even if they were peaceful. We'd discover them, then disect them.

 

[SuperFerret]

The needs for advanced communication could be theorized as a necessity for successful hunting. Everyone has to be on the same page if you want to eat meat. If you have a talking Mountain Gorilla, his need for speech would have arisen from hunting. You don't need to talk to be a sucessful plant grazer. Since Mountain Gorillas are on several magnitudes larger and stronger than Chimps, I would say a talking Mountain Gorilla, given the example above, would be a far more serious threat physically than a talking Chimp. However, given that Chimpanzees are generally three times stronger than a Human, our chances of survival as a race would be questionable at best if they gained the ability to talk as well.

Chimps communicate with each other as well as humans do. It's the reason they're such successful hunters in a group, as well as effective warriors.

It's not the talking/communicating part that's important here, it's the organization and industrialization that would make chimps a threat if they got to that point.

 

[ALP]

It's hard to imagine most of the human race accepting apes or other types of animals as complete equals.

But in reality, if Apes were as intelligent as humans I think they might dominate the earth if there were enough of them. Just like in the movies...

 

[SuperFerret]

I couldn't have said it better, except when I said it in the first place.

 

[Mace Bloodstone]

The military would want to make soldiers out of them because they are strong as hell.

 

[BillPardy]

The military would want to make soldiers out of them because they are strong as hell.

Stalin tried something like that, human gorilla hybrids to be super soldiers... legend says he was successful and that some of these hybrids now lurk in the sewers of Moscow... much like the chuds of Newyork.

 

[Danalys]

we have such a technological advantage that we could easily scupper any progress they made towards gaining equal footing when it comes to warfare.

 

[SWAT]

Stalin tried something like that, human gorilla hybrids to be super soldiers... legend says he was successful and that some of these hybrids now lurk in the sewers of Moscow... much like the chuds of Newyork.

O.K... That's the scariest thing I've ever read.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Stalin tried something like that, human gorilla hybrids to be super soldiers... legend says he was successful and that some of these hybrids now lurk in the sewers of Moscow... much like the chuds of Newyork.

It would be great if a kid who was still at school, and was reading this site instead of doing his history homework, ended up writing that in as an answer to his history exam, I'd love to see that in a movie.

Qa12'What did Stalin do to advance the Soviet military during his reign as Dictator?'

Stalin started a super-ape programme, to make super-apes like in planet of the apes, because apes are stronger than humans, and the military would want them.
so they escaped before the war began and now they survive in the moscow sewers, if you have a problem, and you can find them, maybe you can hire...the ape-team.

 

[LOBO3315a]

Chimps communicate with each other as well as humans do. It's the reason they're such successful hunters in a group, as well as effective warriors.

It's not the talking/communicating part that's important here, it's the organization and industrialization that would make chimps a threat if they got to that point.

Well wouldn't a gorilla, if they got to that point, be just as much, if not more of a threat? Talking is a byproduct of organization. Organization is generally needed for groups of individuals to work towards a common goal. The only real reason for a gorilla to talk would be to organize a hunt. And I think a pack of talking gorillas on the hunt would be far more terrifying and dangerous than a pack of tanking chimpanzees. Either one would spell the end of mandkind.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Either one would spell the end of mandkind.

and they might even spell it better than some humans!