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When Ammann first reached the Bili forest in 1996, local hunters told tales of giant apes who howled at the moon, ... Hicks also found that there are many more chimps in Bili than he thought.
ARE they a giant new species of great ape, ... the apes belong to a recognised subspecies of chimpanzee, ... People living around the town of Bili, ...
Two points in your article about our work on Bili’s “giant apes” require correction (1 July, p 14). It is an exaggeration to say that the chimps’ skulls have a sagittal crest. Only one ...
A tribe of apes living in remote forests in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo are unusually large chimpanzees, not a new species of giant ape or a chimp-gorilla hybrid, New Scientist says ...
The giant lion-eating ape of the Congo, known 'officially' as the Bili or Bondo Mystery Ape, is one of those creatures that for decades has sat on the knife-edge that divides myth and scientific ...
A tribe of apes living in remote forests in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo are unusually large chimpanzees, not a new species of giant ape or a chimp-gorilla hybrid, New Scientist says.
In part three of our Radio Expedition to Central Africa, NPR's Alex Chadwick follows two field biologists into the forest in search of a large ape-like creature that may be an unknown species of ...
Scientists believe they have discovered a new group of giant apes in the jungles of central Africa. The animals, with characteristics of both gorillas and chimpanzees, have been sighted in the north ...
In the second of four Radio Expedition reports, NPR's Alex Chadwick continues the search in Central Africa for an elusive member of the ape family. It may be a gorilla, a very large chimpanzee, or ...
New chimpanzee culture discovered Study describes unique behavioral patterns of Bili-Uéré chimpanzees in the DR Congo Date: February 25, 2019 Source: ...
In the second of four Radio Expedition reports, NPR's Alex Chadwick continues the search in Central Africa for an elusive member of the ape family. It may be a gorilla, a very large chimpanzee, or ...