Koko the Gorilla and Toxoplasmosis

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Koko the Gorilla and Toxoplasmosis

Postby Kurt » Fri Jan 29, 2016 5:59 pm

I was just thinking. You know that gorilla that can talk but refuses to mate and likes cats.

I wonder if it has a Toxoplasmosis infection?

"Cat Ladies" have that and they tend to like cats and not have sex, so I was just wondering.

Nothing is written about this though. I do not think the world is ready for the Sick Gorilla Theory of similarities to humans.
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Re: Koko the Gorilla and Toxoplasmosis

Postby snaark » Fri Jan 29, 2016 6:52 pm

You should be an academic. Seriously.
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Re: Koko the Gorilla and Toxoplasmosis

Postby Kurt » Fri Jan 29, 2016 8:50 pm

snaark wrote:You should be an academic. Seriously.


I did not take an ethics course.

Apparently this is needed even when peripherally associated with academia
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Re: Koko the Gorilla and Toxoplasmosis

Postby nowonmai » Sat Jan 30, 2016 12:20 am

Kurt wrote:
snaark wrote:You should be an academic. Seriously.


I did not take an ethics course.

Apparently this is needed even when peripherally associated with academia


The ethics course took you. Repeatedly. Having clocked the ethics course photo, all I can say is I wouldn't go for a retest.
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Re: Koko the Gorilla and Toxoplasmosis

Postby coldharvest » Sat Jan 30, 2016 12:29 pm

Kurt wrote:I was just thinking. You know that gorilla that can talk but refuses to mate and likes cats.

I wonder if it has a Toxoplasmosis infection?

"Cat Ladies" have that and they tend to like cats and not have sex, so I was just wondering.

Nothing is written about this though. I do not think the world is ready for the Sick Gorilla Theory of similarities to humans.

Tremendously interesting
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20094686?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

nowonmai wrote:Having clocked the ethics course photo, all I can say is I wouldn't go for a retest.

Judging by how amazingly beautiful, incredibly intelligent, truly talented and gracious Mrs. Kurt is I highly doubt he would.
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Re: Koko the Gorilla and Toxoplasmosis

Postby Kurt » Sun Jan 31, 2016 1:06 am

coldharvest wrote:
Kurt wrote:I was just thinking. You know that gorilla that can talk but refuses to mate and likes cats.

I wonder if it has a Toxoplasmosis infection?

"Cat Ladies" have that and they tend to like cats and not have sex, so I was just wondering.

Nothing is written about this though. I do not think the world is ready for the Sick Gorilla Theory of similarities to humans.

Tremendously interesting
http://www.jstor.org/stable/20094686?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

nowonmai wrote:Having clocked the ethics course photo, all I can say is I wouldn't go for a retest.

Judging by how amazingly beautiful, incredibly intelligent, truly talented and gracious Mrs. Kurt is I highly doubt he would.
Victoria was everything I have come to expect from an English woman.


Damn, I figured someone had theorized something like that. Even if infected with Toxoplasmosis Koko is pretty amazing but in only that we created a barely literate Cat Lady from a majestic lowland gorilla.

Its not like we were going to create a gorilla Stephen Hawking....Yes, Koko we have heard about your theory of a banana shaped universe.
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