OXNARD, CALIFORNIA– A chiropractor from Oxnard, who happens to be a chimpanzee, is being heralded as the future of modern chiropractic care.
Dr. Koko Bongo is a 5 year old chimpanzee who has been practicing for a little over a year and is already seeing more patients than the majority of human chiropractors around town.
After graduating from Moeg En Kwaad College in South Africa, Bongo acquired his chiropractic degree from Onnosel University in 2017 and then headed out to California where he opened up his own practice called Bongo’s Primate Care Chiropractic.
Even though Dr. Bongo doesn’t speak any human language and merely communicates with everyone in sign language and a series of grunts and howls, he has already earned himself a Chiropractor of the Year Award and is being studied by numerous researchers as a way to use chimpanzees to branch out into other areas of the medical field.
“The possibilities are endless,” said John Goodall, a research scientist from the Anthropoid Studies Institute who’s been studying Dr. Bongo for the last three months. “Imagine being able to train other chimpanzees to do the same work as Dr. Bongo and more. Perhaps one day every human working in the medical field will be replaced by these more highly intelligent primates.”
With a chuckle, Goodall added, “I guess maybe that proves the old saying that something can be so easy that a monkey can do it, or in this case a chimpanzee.”
In light of Dr. Bongo’s work, researchers are sending other chimpanzees to medical school where they are being trained to do other mediocre medical tasks, such as brain surgery, limb replacement, accidental deaths, and insurance fraud.
