Website review: Found: the giant lion-eating chimps...
cromagnum55 discovered this in Zoology
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cromagnum55 discovered 13 months ago- Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that, according to local legend, kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. Local hunters speak of massive creatures that seem to be some sort of hybrid between a chimp and a gorilla. Their location at the centre of one of the bloodiest conflicts on the planet, the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has meant that the mystery apes have been little studied by western scientists. Reaching the region means negotiating the shifting fortunes of warring rebel factions, and the heart of the animals' range is deep in impenetrable forest. But despite the difficulties, a handful of scientists have succeeded in studying the animals. Early speculation that the apes may be some yeti-like new species or a chimp/gorilla hybrid proved unfounded, but the truth has turned out to be in many ways even more fascinating. They are actually a population of super-sized chimps with a unique culture - and it seems, a taste for big cat flesh. The most detailed and recent data comes from Cleve Hicks, at
- pseudonym rated 12 months ago
From the page: "Found: the giant lion-eating chimps of the magic forest Mr Hicks reports that he found a unique chimp culture. For example unlike their cousins in other parts of Africa the chimps regularly bed down for the night in nests on the ground. Around a fifth of the nests he found were there rather than in the trees. "How can they get away with sleeping on the ground when there are lions leopards golden cats around as well as other dangerous animals like elephants and buffalo " said Mr Hicks. "I don t like to paint them as being more aggressive but maybe they prey on some of these predators and the predators kind of leave them alone." He is keen to point out though that they don t howl at the moon. "The ground nests were very big and there was obviously something very unusual going on there. They are not unknown elsewhere but very unusual " said Colin Groves an expert on primate morphology at the Australian National University in Canberra who has observed the nests in the field. Prof Groves believes that the Bili apes should prompt a radical rethink of the family tree of chimp sub-species. He has proposed that primatologists should now recognise five different sub-divisions instead of the current four." [ Stumbled upon at http://cromagnum55.stumbleupon.com ]
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