> Dave wrote:
> Thought while on the London Underground: People are pretty fcken mellow
> apes... I can't imagine that you could stuff a tube train with gorillas,
> send it round the Circle Line for an hour, and expect as few
> fights/sexual
> episodes as you get with humans. This makes me really want to do the
> experiment, only I wouldn't like to be the one who got the gorillas out
> of
> the tube train afterwards.
> ----
> It's illogical (and I think unproved) that gorillas are as violent as
> you say. If it was so, they wouldn't survive period. And once you're
> accustomed to being stuffed in a tube with too much of your kind, fight
> episodes aren't so common.
Then again: gorillas aren't ADAPTED to that kind of population density!
Do you *really* want this tested????
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