1997, the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted an autopsy on "Monkey Baby". Researchers: Patients with cerebellar diseases.

For many years, the legend of "savage" has been heard in China, among which there is such a "monkey baby", which is said to be the offspring of a cross between an ape and a monkey.

1997 The scientific investigation team of China Academy of Sciences immediately rushed to the hometown of "Monkey Baby" after receiving the news, but upon arrival, they were told that "Monkey Baby" had passed away.

In order to verify the life experience of the "Monkey Baby", the expert group took its remains back to the Chinese Academy of Sciences for further study after consulting with the family members of the "Monkey Baby". What is the result of this study? What unusual features did the experts find on the bones of the "monkey baby"?

Today we will explore the secret of "monkey baby".

Baby Monkey was born in Changyang County, Hubei Province 1957, and is the fourth child in the family. It is said that his mother, Dr. Yang, was kidnapped by a savage on the mountain while delivering food to her husband, and it took several months to escape from home. After returning home, I didn't communicate with others I stayed alone in my room all day. A few months later, I gave birth to Zeng Fansheng.

Zeng Shengfeng was older than other babies when he was born. He cried strangely. He has long black hair on his palms, ankles, chest and buttocks. Later, all the hair on his body was pulled out by his sister, and it hasn't grown since.

1997, a video about the mystery of the savage was made public by the media, which caused a sensation in the whole country and became a hot topic in the streets.

In the video, Zeng Fansheng was naked and naked. His head is small and sharp, his forehead is low and flat, his ears are inclined to his head, and there are three thick raised ridges on his head. He is tall, with long arms, knee-high palms and hunched back. When he walks, his movements look like an ape standing up and walking.

Zeng Fansheng can't speak, but he can express his emotions with actions. When he is happy, he will clap his hands. When he loses his temper, he jumps with his feet and beats his chest back and forth with his hands.

According to Zeng Fansheng's family, Zeng Fansheng didn't want to wear clothes, and even if he did, he would be torn off. He doesn't stay in the house, he wanders outside all day. Even in the cold winter, he is not afraid of freezing to death, but he is strong and has never been ill.

In addition to his parents, Zeng Shengfeng has six brothers and sisters. In such a family, there is only one person who used to be in the prime of life, with strange appearance and strange behavior, which is quite different from ordinary people.

Some people have doubted whether there is a gene of inbreeding in their family, which led to Zeng Feng's genetic disease. The answer is no. Unlike Zeng, his brothers and sisters are all smart and capable people.

His father was the secretary of the Party branch in the village before his death, and his brother Zeng Fanlong was elected as the director of the village committee before he left office to become a film projectionist, while his younger brother Zeng Mingfan was an ordinary farmer.

In order to scientifically confirm the identity of "Monkey Baby" and solve the mystery of Monkey Baby, China Academy of Sciences organized a scientific investigation team to Changyang County, Hubei Province, hoping to collect blood samples of Monkey Baby and its father for DNA identification.

Changyang County is in the south of the Yangtze River, close to Shennongjia, where the legendary "savage" haunts. There are many mountains and dense forests here, which is the discovery place of Changyang human fossils in Paleolithic age. The record of "savage" has also been found in local historical materials.

1997 12 18, the "Monkey Baby" scientific research team arrived in Changyang County, Hubei Province. After crossing many mountains, the expedition finally came to the small village where only a dozen families lived in the depths of the mountains.

Zeng Fansheng's home is not difficult to find. Someone pointed out the direction for the expedition when asked. After arriving at Zeng's home, Zeng Fansheng's brother and younger brother warmly received the researchers. After some exchanges, everyone learned that Zeng Fansheng and his parents had passed away for many years.

Zeng Qinghe, a relative of Zeng Fansheng, said that Zeng Fansheng died of diarrhea. According to science, this is food poisoning.

According to Zeng Fansheng's brother, Zeng Fansheng had never been sick before, but he had diarrhea for a long time before he died. Then one night he fell asleep and never woke up the next day, so he died.

The baby monkey died of food poisoning, and the body was already buried.

The monkey baby died, and the initial plan of the research team to collect blood for DNA testing was completely hopeless. So their research is over? Of course not.

Although the baby monkey is dead, his bones are still there, and his bones are also of great research value.

Therefore, the expedition team members did not give up. They have done ideological work for Zeng's brother for a long time, hoping that their families can donate Zeng's remains and support the country's scientific research work. On the other hand, if we can prove that Zeng Fansheng is not a descendant of savages, we can also give ourselves an innocent reputation.

Under various considerations, the Tseng brothers finally agreed to the expedition's request.

Before dawn, the Tseng brothers took the expedition members to the hillside where Zeng was buried.

After making full preparations, the expedition team members dug up the once prosperous grave and opened the once prosperous coffin board.

At this time, Zeng Fansheng has been dead for eight years, and his body has long been corrupt, leaving only fragments. The skeleton in front of me looks no different from ordinary people except that the skull is relatively small.

There is a man named Wang in the scientific research team, and the video recording the daily life and behavior of "Monkey Baby" was shot at 1986.

1986, Wang was still a young man full of curiosity about "savage". During his business trip in Hubei, he overheard the story of "Monkey Baby" in Changyang, Hubei. It is said that the local police found a naked man with strange behavior when handling a case, and then it was published in Shennongjia Daily.

After a series of interviews and research work in the early stage, Wang thinks that this "monkey baby" in Changyang, Hubei Province is probably the breakthrough to solve the mystery of "savage", which aroused Wang's strong curiosity. He came to Shennongjia with his friend Sun Zhiyong and others. They searched and inquired all the way, and finally found the home of "Monkey Baby".

According to Wang's memory, many years later, when he saw Zeng Fansheng's skull, he felt that the skull was only the size of a coconut shell, and it was covered with many black and finely divided hyphae.

"At that time, I found that the edges and corners I had seen on his head were gone. Because the ape has a sagittal ridge on its head, but the baby monkey you see after opening the coffin has no sagittal ridge on its head, but its head is very small. " Wang said to him.

Subsequently, a member of the scientific research team carefully jumped into Zeng Fansheng's coffin and slowly took out his bones piece by piece. It took Zeng Fansheng nearly four hours to completely remove his bones.

The team returned to vertebrate paleontology Institute of Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences with the remains of monkey baby Zeng Fansheng. After cleaning and disinfection, Zeng Fansheng's bones were pieced together to restore the adult form.

After measurement and identification by several experts, the most striking feature of Zeng Fansheng's bones is his skull-his skull is very small, and his brain capacity is only about half that of normal people.

His facial bones develop normally, which is the normal standard of human facial bones; The skeletal development of limbs is also normal, and the height is about1.71m; The clavicle is a little different from normal people. Modern man's collarbone is straight and flat, while his collarbone is V-shaped. His pelvis is wider than that of normal men, and more like that of women.

Yuan Zhenxin, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a paleoanthropologist, said: "According to the measurement of our two experts and professors, the brain capacity of the monkey baby is only about 670 ml."

The weight of the newborn baby's brain is 350 400 ml, the weight of the one-year-old child's brain can be twice that of the birth, that is, 700 800 ml, while the brain capacity of the adult is 1400 1500 ml. The baby monkey was in his thirties when he died, and his brain capacity was less than half that of a normal person.

Why is the monkey baby's brain so small?

According to Yuan Zhenxin, the experts who participated in the research at that time believed that the seam on the monkey baby's head had healed before infancy, and the premature healing of the seam caused its brain to stop growing, so it lost its language function and could not speak.

"His skull is very low and small, and his brain capacity is less than 700 ml. This is a cerebellar disease. " Yuan Zhenxin said.

"Monkey Baby" was once popular and was finally diagnosed as a patient with cerebellar disease.

Scientific experts have confirmed that "Monkey Baby" Zeng Fansheng is a cerebellar patient. Is it over? Of course not.

Judging from Zeng's prosperous remains, there are still some puzzling places in his body. For example, the brain capacity of an ape is 600 1000 ml, and Zeng Fansheng's brain capacity is just within this range; The shape of his collarbone is different from that of a normal person. It is V-shaped.

His teeth are arranged exactly like those of an ape-the first molar of a normal person is larger than the second molar, and the second molar is larger than the third molar, while his is just the opposite.

Moreover, the patients diagnosed with cerebellum disease all over the world are shorter than ordinary people, and their height is less than 1.5 meters, while those who used to be proud of the spring breeze are normal, 1.7 meters, and their mobility is still very good. When throwing things at strangers, the action is to throw them from the bottom up, while most of us throw them from the top down. What about these unusual behavioral characteristics?

In fact, Wang tried to directly ask Zeng Fansheng's mother if she was really captured by savages when filming a documentary, but her great-grandfather and great-grandmother were extremely exclusive and wary of outsiders and even said nothing. The parents of the Zeng family avoided talking about the life experience of the monkey baby, and Wang and others were more curious about the monkey baby.

Later, Wang brought the video back to Beijing and gave it to experts who studied ancient humans for identification. At that time, experts said that the monkey baby was really strange in appearance and behavior, but to determine whether it was the offspring of interbreeding between apes, it was necessary to collect his blood for DNA analysis.

In the 1980s, the level of science and technology was not advanced. Even if the blood of Zeng Fansheng and his father is collected, it will deteriorate if it is not frozen. In addition, the traffic was inconvenient at that time, so Wang put the baby monkey on hold for the time being.

Unfortunately, at this time, Zeng Fansheng and his parents had died, so they could only collect the DNA of Zeng Fansheng's brothers and sisters.

Yuan Zhenxin said: "The DNA provided by the brothers and sisters of the monkey baby can only be used for horizontal comparison, so the comparison is of little significance."

In other words, if we can get the DNA of the living savage, there is still hope to verify it, but so far, no living savage has been found in the world.

Therefore, the researchers believe that, firstly, Zeng Fansheng, a "monkey baby", is indeed a patient with cerebellar diseases. Secondly, the differences between Zeng Fansheng's bones and ordinary people and those similarities with apes show that Zeng Fansheng's bones still have great research value.

At present, the body of the baby monkey is still preserved in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, waiting for the progress of science and technology and the continued exploration of future generations.

Now, the study of savages related to baby monkeys continues.

Is there really a savage in the world? No one can be sure. Occasionally, people say that they saw a savage, but there is no conclusive evidence.

As an unidentified higher primate, there are different classifications (appellations) around the world. In China, there are mainly two categories: Shennongjia Savage and Himalayan Snowman.

Up to now, hundreds of people in Shennongjia, China have reported seeing individuals suspected of being "savages". In the description of these "witnesses", "savage" is often tall, with long hair and can walk upright, and looks like "half man and half ape".

Researchers have conducted extensive research and discussion on "savage". In 1980s, China organized a large-scale scientific expedition to Shennongjia forest area for extensive search and exploration, but found no direct evidence to prove the existence of "savage".

Some people think that "savage" doesn't exist at all-the reason is simple. After so many years, let alone the "living" savage, even the remains of the suspected "savage" have not been found. If there are "savages", the number will not be less than one or two, but if there are a group of "savages" and modern technology is so advanced, how can they not be found?

People who believe that "savage" exists cite many reasons. For example, many ancient books in China have records of "savage"-Shan Hai Jing records a giant humanoid animal called "Jiangxi Giant" or "Lamb", with a long face and long lips, thick black hair and a smile at people; For example, the overall environment of Shennongjia forest area is very suitable for the survival and reproduction of large primates; For another example, the "hair" and "feces" collected from some witness sites in Shennongjia forest area can indirectly prove that there may be an animal different from ordinary beasts and people.

The appearance of "Monkey Baby" is undoubtedly helpful for people to study the mystery of "Savage", and the remains of "Monkey Baby" are important specimens for studying "Shennongjia Savage".

Strange to say, it is said that "Monkey Baby" met a fortune teller before his death. The fortune-teller said that the baby monkey would be famous in the future, so let his family treat him well. Sure enough, eight years after the death of "Monkey Baby", the research team of Chinese Academy of Sciences found his bones. His brother was still alive at that time. They also witnessed the whole process of this "monkey baby" becoming a "big celebrity".

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