Does anyone else dislike primates?

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Animals have always been my chief obsession but ever since I could remember I have HATED primates. Some monkeys are cute and lemurs are so adorable. But chimpanzees are but ugly and even more so with their babies. I could never understand why people spend hours at the zoo saying how cute they were. Baby chimpanzees are NOT cute. But then this is coming from a person who thinks snakes and insects are cuddly looking. I don't think it's right to abuse them or anything and if there was one that needed my help I would help it or give it a home if it needed one and had no other place to go. We would only look at the monkeys ate the zoo if someone else went with us and I would complain until we went to see a better animal. I think maybe it's because chimpanzees are so human looking.

Well they are a bit ugly, there babies aren't exactly kittens either. maybe we tend to equate them to humans and therfore think they are ugly in comparisen, also some of there habbits are bellow, well I will say clean. And Tigers, spiders, crocodiles are ausome and much more interesting then those hairy hobbits.

I love primates. They fascinate me. I don't see anything ugly about them.

them chimps even less cute when they gett'n together in troupes and raidin' each other territories.... curb stomp'n them other males and rapin' the females and cannibalizing the young'uns.

Omar's gotta lots of respect for them things...closest evolutionary link to humans and it shows.

I have always thought new born human babies are ugly. But I think my thoughts had changed because I have seen a few newborn babies lately and I didn't think they were ugly. I have seen my brothers as newborn and I never thought they were ugly.

I have never seen baby chimps so I wouldn't know. Remember, thinking they are ugly or cute is an opinion. Everyone has their own view of what is cute and ugly. Just like me thinking newborns are ugly and they get cuter as they get older.

Well, I've never liked primates because they're all related to the worst specie on the planet, humans.

I love all primates
Yes they're odd looking, but so are we.

I'd LOVE to work with primates/wild animals, similar to what Jane Goodall does.

I wish we'd stop electing them.

Generally I don't hate animals except for ticks...
As a kid I didn't like the chimps in the zoo at all, hierarchical noisy creatures. I loved the snakes. I could watch them for hours, but my parents got bored after half an hour or so...

Cyberman, I lol at your name, avatar, and comment.

I am in awe of primates when I see them. I think it's really cool to see a species so close to us, especially since there aren't any hominids left except ourselves.

I like bonbos, orangutans and mountain gorillas, I am sure if there are samquanchs I would like those too.

I have nothing against primates in general. I am fascinated by chimps but they are very aggressive. They remind me more of humans than the other apes. Gorillas, Bonobos and Orang-Utans may not be pretty but they are generally peaceful and highly intelligent. I find intelligence in animals to be an amazing characteristic because when I was young I thought animals were little machines without minds.