Is it an insult to chimps to call * a chimp?

[madison2000]

Poll question: Is it an insult to chimps to call * a chimp?

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. Yes, all of the above...

:evilgrin:

[madison2000]

2. I love chimps.

[AlCzervik]

3. my name is a tribute to all the insulted chimps

[miss_kitty]

4. yes. i agree

[donheld]

5. Chimps actually have the ability to be compassionate

unlike the compassionate conservative *

[hickman1937]

6. Chimps are violent gremlins.

I watched a series on animal planet a couple of years ago, and they are over the top. If you called bush a gorilla, that would be an insult to all gorillas. Bonobos seem to be pretty cool too.

[madison2000]

7. I lived with a family for a summer in Africa- they had a baby chimp

as a pet. It was amazingly human like- from the hands and face to the toddler like tantrums!

[hickman1937]

8. Ya, after I posted this, I tried some research,

via google. Seems that unattached male gorillas are much more likely to perform infanticide that chimps, at least according to one study that I don't have the math to really understand.

http://www.cstars.ucdavis.edu/~jongreen/papers/harcourtetal2001a.pdf