Legends Of The Bondo Apes

[Still Waters]

https://www.iflscience.com/legends-of-the-bondo-apes-are-they-giant-ferocious-lion-killers-75504

 Over the past few decades, researchers have set out to discover exactly what this mysterious group of apes really is. Read more here.

[Abramelin]

1 hour ago, Still Waters said:

https://www.iflscience.com/legends-of-the-bondo-apes-are-they-giant-ferocious-lion-killers-75504

 Over the past few decades, researchers have set out to discover exactly what this mysterious group of apes really is. Read more here.

That topic has been discussed to bits several times in the Cryptozoological section of this site. Last time maybe something like 4 week ago.

[Abramelin]

1 hour ago, Still Waters said:

https://www.iflscience.com/legends-of-the-bondo-apes-are-they-giant-ferocious-lion-killers-75504

 Over the past few decades, researchers have set out to discover exactly what this mysterious group of apes really is. Read more here.

In fact, it was EXACTLY 4 weeks ago:

 

I posted the same link, lol!

Edited August 10 by Abramelin

[Still Waters]

1 hour ago, Abramelin said:

That topic has been discussed to bits several times in the Cryptozoological section of this site. Last time maybe something like 4 week ago.

I saw the thread you're referring to. We currently don't have any topics about the Bondo Apes, we have a topic about Chimporilla with no official confirmation of what type of ape it was, just speculation all round. You've declared the Chimporilla is a Bondo Ape but whether or not you're right remains to be seen. 

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Field biologist Dr John Hart has come to a different conclusion. He’s lived in the Congo since the early 1970s and describes the Chimporilla as an “only in the Congo type of story”.

Like Hicks, Hart believes the animal is a chimp, but he thinks the debate could possibly be resolved with a DNA test.

"Samples were taken but mysteriously no one has ever seen the results of genetic analysis," he said.

“Maybe you’re onto an incredible discovery or maybe it’s a hoax. It is fun though. It’s a great little story.”

https://au.news.yahoo.com/mystery-bigfoot-ape-hidden-inside-remote-museum-could-rewrite-history-books-074432097.html

[Abramelin]

5 hours ago, Still Waters said:

"Samples were taken but mysteriously no one has ever seen the results of genetic analysis," he said.

That's weird, because they know, by that same genetic analysis, that the Bongo ape is nothing but a large common chimp.

[Ell]

There is no reason to suspect these are the great apes that raised Tarzan.

They appear to be some variety of chimps instead.

[Abramelin]

17 hours ago, Still Waters said:

I saw the thread you're referring to. We currently don't have any topics about the Bondo Apes, we have a topic about Chimporilla with no official confirmation of what type of ape it was, just speculation all round. You've declared the Chimporilla is a Bondo Ape but whether or not you're right remains to be seen. 

Scientists soon determined they were common chimpanzees,[3][4] and part of a larger contiguous population stretching throughout that part of northern Congo.[5][6][7] Genetic testing with non-nuclear DNA in 2003 immediately indicated that it was in fact part of the already described eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii), a subspecies of the common chimpanzee.[2][4][8]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bili_ape

[Abramelin]

Most of the skulls of these Bondo or Bili apes looked normal. But a couple had a sagittal crest, making them look like a chimp-gorilla hybrid. Hence: "chimporilla".

[the13bats]

"Bondo" is a mud that is used for car repairs and custom work and there are custom shops with "monkey " in there names,

No, that doesnt have anything to do with this topic.

[jethrofloyd]

I have come across articles about those apes several times, but I never fully understand what the fuss is all about. Are they danger, are they big, are they hidden in the forests...

 

 

[Occupational Hubris]

13 hours ago, jethrofloyd said:

I have come across articles about those apes several times, but I never fully understand what the fuss is all about. Are they danger, are they big, are they hidden in the forests...

 

 

There are only 4 great apes (5 if you include humans) It would be a major discovery if there were an unknown ape still around. 

[jethrofloyd]

Aren t those Bili Apes just a subgenre of the ordinary chimpanzees.?A type of somewhat larger and slightly more aggressive chimpanzees?

[Abramelin]

15 hours ago, jethrofloyd said:

Aren t those Bili Apes just a subgenre of the ordinary chimpanzees.?A type of somewhat larger and slightly more aggressive chimpanzees?

They are. Scroll up.

[Occupational Hubris]

15 hours ago, jethrofloyd said:

Aren t those Bili Apes just a subgenre of the ordinary chimpanzees.?A type of somewhat larger and slightly more aggressive chimpanzees?

Yes. 

[Carnoferox]

On 8/16/2024 at 1:23 AM, Occupational Hubris said:

There are only 4 great apes (5 if you include humans) It would be a major discovery if there were an unknown ape still around. 

If we're going by genera there are 4 living great apes including humans (Pongo, Gorilla, Pan, and Homo) and if we're going by species there are 8 (Po. pygmaeus, Po. abelii, Po. tapanuliensis, G. gorilla, G. beringei, Pa. troglodytes, Pa. paniscus, and H. sapiens). There are even more if we're going by subspecies, but I think you get my point.