Out in the forest, something stirs
Economist, Oct 17th 2002 :A species of ape unrecognised by science may exist in the Congo.
Mr Amman’s expeditions … have not seen a live ape. But they have found a lot of ground nests.. Faeces in the area resemble those of gorillas… As if to clinch it, Mr Amman has also found another crested skull lying around.
Some of the nests, however, have hairs in them. And hairs contain DNA. That yielded a surprise. The DNA looks like that of a chimpanzee, not a gorilla… What Mr Amman seems to have found is a chimpanzee that behaves like a gorilla.
Local hunters’ reports point to something unusual, too… Several enormous chimp footprints seem to confirm the hunters’ reports of an out-sized chimp.
Reminds me of all those Super Gorillas (like the infamous Grodd) they were so fond of in DC comics, which really looked a lot more like chimps than gorillas.