All gorillas are Sigourney Weaver 13 Sep 2007 As a silverback, I am always intrigued when you humans start to debate our nature, or put us in silly films (not that the one with Sigourney was silly – any film she’s in is fine by me. We don’t get much film out here in the wild, anyway). But, courtesy of Jason Grossman, alpaca farmer extraordinaire, here is one of the funniest argumenta ad Google I have ever seen. It proves that because we are all Sigourney Weaver, you humans ought to be vegetarians. I’m sure Jason, who moonlights as a philosopher in his spare time at the ANU, will be able to use this for his critical reasoning classes. Humor Logic and philosophy
Creationism and Intelligent Design On the lateral transfer post 2 Apr 2009 Well yes it was a joke. But it was based on the inappropriate manner in which the well-known work on lateral transfer was reported by New Scientist as showing that Darwin was wrong. That genes occasionally cross over taxonomic borders among single celled organisms by transduction (viral exchange), conjugation (sharing… Read More
Evolution Cleesing the God Gene 14 Sep 2008 If I weren’t such a reductionist mechanist, I’d probably find this very very funny. And what Cleese does to things deserves its own verb. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-vnmejwXo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1] Read More
any film she’s in is fine by me. By me too and I’m not even a gorilla! By the way are gorillas vegetarians or not?
My friend Sascha whose flat I have the privilege of sharing and who is neither a human nor a gorilla (I’ll give you a clue he has four legs, a tail and large, very hairy ears) has been reading the link and has the following question: “Does the fact that gorillas and humans have canines mean that they have to eat dogs?”
Ewww, no. It means humans and gorillas and Sigourney Weaver are dogs. We can’t eat them, that would be cannibalism. Gorillas are omnivores, but they primarily eat leafy plants and seeds. But I’m willing to bet that they will not knock back a protein package if offered in the form of a small animal or bug.