Primal Tears
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Primal Tears is a 2005 novel by Truthout’s environment editor Kelpie Wilson about the adventures of a bonobo-human hybrid, or humanzee, female named Sage who goes from hunted pariah to international superstar.
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Sage is born to a young woman who has volunteered to be a surrogate mother for an endangered bonobo chimpanzee. The process goes awry because the bonobo egg that was inseminated failed to be fertilised. The result was the woman's own egg becoming fertilised by the bonobo sperm.
Sage, a youngster, is neither completely one species nor the other. She is described as a human-looking American girl except for the fine hair all over her arms, legs, back and butt, her jutting brow ridge, her long powerful arms, her decidedly unintellectual mentality, her "endless" craving for sex, and a few other bonobo chimpanzee characteristics. When her existence becomes public knowledge, she needs all the best characteristics of both species to find a place for herself in our human-dominated world.
Author Kelpie Wilson has mentioned that "(Sage) is only a thought-experiment of mine, though I have to confess, there was one point where I was so obsessed with the idea and so curious to find out if a bonobo-human hybrid was possible, that I contemplated getting ahold of some bonobo sperm and trying it myself! Luckily, my common sense prevailed, and Sage was born on paper only."
