dammit Charles, why must you tease me so?

Gotta love a hard drive where searching for "ape rape" doesn't help narrow down the choices enough.

What Asian animal is nicknamed old man of the forest?

Orangatan

It is actually 'Person of the Forest/Jungle'

Orang does not carry any gender or age in the Malay Language.

Peter Mathiessen in his 2000 book, Tigers in the Snow, states that a tiger is referred to as the "old gentleman of the forest".

I'm going to use that little technique (which I'd like to call "journalistic hearsay") for the next paper I write: "Somewhere on my computer there is peer-reviewed scientific research that backs up my claims, but you'll have to take my word for it."

When I get an F, I'll shout in protest: "But it works for Mudede!"

@4, I don't think Slog posts can be considered "papers".

This sounds pretty close to what Charles was describing: The orangutan mating system and the unfl….

Very interesting. It is the immature, subordinate males who rape and the mature, dominant males who woo.

and success goes to those who practice both

And none of which has even the remotest bearing on human behavior, which is what Charles was getting at. Different species, even related ones, exhibit different characteristics and behaviors. It's interesting but not humanly predictive.

@8 The same could be said every time anybody quotes some factoid about non-human primates and tries to apply it to humans. Orangutan behavior is wildly different from chimp behavior which is wildly different from gorilla behavior and none of them are like humans.

What's interesting with Orangutans is that after they successfully, consensually, have sex, their faces change and become puffy, a symbol of maturity. These less sightly apes aren't featured in movies because they're not as cute, meaning that the Orangutans we're all familiar with are the potential rapists.

Cool story, Bro.

OPEN THE DOOR, GET ON THE FLOOR, EVERYBODY WALK THE DINOSAUR.