Mystery 'Bigfoot' ape hidden inside remote museum could rewrite history books

[Antigonos]

20 minutes ago, Piney said:

  There was a awesome used bookstore in Mullica Hill that I would ride my bike to on Sundays after Meeting and was coming home with 5 or 6 books every Sunday on history or Native Americans. When the owner's husband died she sold me his entire NA library for next to nothing.

 

It’s great having memories like that.

That’s being in the right place at the right time!

It was a lot easier when we were younger  to build a personal library than it is now. Bookstores are gone for the most part thanks to internet shopping (never thought I’d see the day) and a lot of online booksellers are greedy, jacking up prices on used books.   In the old days I could go to the Strand and find 10 copies of an old oop book for 10 dollars and take my pick condition wise. Now a single damaged copy of the same book will be going for anywhere from 35 to 50 online It’s gotten so out of hand. There are a few trustworthy sellers out there but it’s trial and error. A lot of the second hand sellers on Amazon and Ebay are ripoff artists. 

20 minutes ago, Piney said:

  

 Since we're a little main street shopping town we have a small bookstore called Words Matter and that's the only one I dealt with since moving here. Ask and she finds. 

But I do deal with a online bookstore for my Bibliobazaar and Scholar Select reprints for "beating on" and loaning out. 

That’s really the only place to find small bookstores anymore. The two that were in my town are gone unfortunately. Now the only local place I can buy used paperbacks are in the summertime when the town library has its once a month book sale.

I like companies like Bibliobazaar for exactly the reasons you stated, and for being able to get cheap copies of things that are flat out impossible to find otherwise.

Another thing I noticed is that most books don’t stay in print nearly as long as they used to. There might be one or two runs and that’s it. If you don’t grab something within a year of it being published you’re **** out of luck. Sellers will raise their prices just because it’s OOP. 

Our timeline has gone to **** in a few ways, but the loss of bookstores is one of the worst IMO.

 

 

 

Edited July 10 by Antigonos

[Piney]

15 minutes ago, Abramelin said:

Can't find that goddamn video.

But this is a nice link:

https://www.iflscience.com/bondo-ape-the-truth-behind-brutal-lion-eating-chimps-of-the-congo-67487

"Mohawk"?  Sagittal crest, which means it eats tougher food but not necessarily meat.

Australopithecus (Paranthropus) Robustus which branched off (our ancestor was of the A. Gracile branch) had one and they most likely ate nuts and tubers from isotope analysis of the bones. 

[Trelane]

"Nuts and Tubers" sounds like a CW sitcom.🤣

[Piney]

3 hours ago, Trelane said:

"Nuts and Tubers" sounds like a CW sitcom.🤣

Everything on CW is a sitcom. 

[Abramelin]

Even when these Bondo/Bili apes are just common eastern chimps, there still remains this question: what (diet?) made them grow larger, like 6 feet tall?

 

Imagine: a 'normal' sized chimp can rip your arm clean off because they are about 7 times stronger than the avarage human.

Now imagine what a 6 feet tall chimp could do.

Kill a lion?

Edited to add:

I think we are witnessing evolution in action.

If we don't exterminate them, we'll get a new ape species within thousands of years.

Edited July 11 by Abramelin

[Piney]

On 7/11/2024 at 10:16 AM, Abramelin said:

Even when these Bondo/Bili apes are just common eastern chimps, there still remains this question: what (diet?) made them grow larger, like 6 feet tall?

 

Imagine: a 'normal' sized chimp can rip your arm clean off because they are about 7 times stronger than the avarage human.

Now imagine what a 6 feet tall chimp could do.

Kill a lion?

Edited to add:

I think we are witnessing evolution in action.

If we don't exterminate them, we'll get a new ape species within thousands of years.

It's eating more meat is one of the reasons it could be bigger. 

[+DieChecker]

Im going to go with variant of chimp. One that got more protein than most as a youngster, and likely was a dominant alpha male, and thus had to be muscular and large to secure his position.

Occationally we see extra big bears, tigers, lions, elephants, horses, cattle, dogs, cats... It happens.

DNA test could be interesting though. Maybe he had a chimp version of acromegaly, the condition Andre the Giant had.

Edited July 16 by DieChecker

[Abramelin]

18 minutes ago, DieChecker said:

DNA test could be interesting though.

They did. It's a common chimp, Pantroglodites schweizblahblah something.