Humanoid cryptids have always been there, stalking the history of mankind, these hairy
relatives sometimes being considered friend other times foe.
Those that believe in the existence of the creatures are often firm in their beliefs,
they usually point to strange sounds of fleeting glances as proof that they have encountered
a living cryptid hominid.
Outside of these reports proof however has been hard to find, many artefacts have proven
to be nothing more than hoaxes, but does this mean we should lose faith in one day finding
an animal like Wildman, a Sasquatch or yeti?
Well maybe not.
Famously the gorilla hid from the modern world for hundreds of years and was regarded as
being a fictitious animal, an animal we now know to be real.
Could there be another species of undiscovered great ape, a species said to stand at some
6 feet in height, aggressive and capable of tool use?
Could it once and for all prove that there is more hidden in the forests and jungles
of the world than people would rather admit?
Let take a look the creature they call "the lion killer."
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The story begins with discovery of an odd gorilla-like skull found in Central Africa
during the 1990s.
This skull had some distinct differences which provoked wild speculation about a new species
of great ape.
This skull was similar to that of a gorilla, having the sagittal crest but was more chimp
like in its dimensions.
Primatologists made the suggestion that the skull represented a new subspecies of gorilla,
others believed it to be a strange chimpanzee-gorilla hybrid.
Locals in the area told of a monstrous man sized ape that was feared and was so strong
it was known to tear lion's limb from limb.
This story grew and the animal was given the name the Bondo Ape or Bili ape.
It was said that this cryptid ape could kill a fully grown lion using its bare hands, and
it was even capable of using simple tools and poison tipped arrows.
Local hunters say they had heard the animal howling at the moon and when it is seen it
is a huge, vicious, strong killer an intelligent predator both strong and smart.
Something these men feared!
This is very much like the stories of wildmen and even Sasquatch.
The difference being that the stories about man sized chimps were believed and science
took serious interest.
The University of Amsterdam and it primatologist Cleve Hicks tracked the mystery apes for over
a year.
Hicks's and his team gathered many hours of film footage, collected DNA, and examined
the tools fashioned by the apes.
Alas, genetic testing determined that the mystery apes were a known subspecies of chimpanzee,
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii.
Although the species was known, the scientist did notice that this group of apes displayed
unique group behaviors, a culture if you will.
This included a high protein based diet, this could go some way to explaining the reported
larger size of the apes.
Could it also explain their intelligence the consumption of meat has long been linked to
the development of human intelligence?
Are we seeing, before our very eyes, the beginning of a new stronger more intelligent chimpanzee
species?
So what behaviors make them different from regular chimpanzees?
These animals nest on the ground like gorillas, smash open turtle and snail shells using hard
surfaces, they use different types of sticks for collecting different species of ants,
and have been spotted feasting on a leopard carcass.
Although little evidence supports the popular legend that the animals howl at the moon or
are ferocious lion killers that does not mean they aren't intimidating.
In the deep forest, the chimps are fearless, "approaching us in the trees to get a better
look," Hicks says, rather than fleeing at the sight of humans, as chimps in other regions
tend to do.
Mr Hicks.
Told of how previous researchers had only managed to snatch glimpses of the animals
or snap photos of them using camera traps.
Hicks was able to use his local knowledge to get a lot closer to them photograph and
film them.
Hicks spoke of his encounters saying, "We were told of this sort of fabled land
out west by one of our trackers who goes out there to fish," said Mr Hicks whose project
is supported by the Wasmoeth Wildlife Foundation.
"I call it the magic forest.
It is a very special place.
Getting there means a gruelling 40km (25-mile) trek through the jungle, from the nearest
road, not to mention navigating croc-infested rivers.
But when he arrived he found apes without their normal fear of humans.
Chimps near the road flee immediately at the sight of people because they know the consequences
of a hunter's rifle, but these animals were happy to approach him.
"The further away from the road the more fearless the chimps got."
"They can get away with sleeping on the ground opposed to other chimps, even when
there are lions, leopards, golden cats around as well as other dangerous animals like elephants
and buffalo.
Because although I don't like to paint them as being more aggressive, maybe they prey
on some of these predators and the predators kind of leave them alone."
"The ground nests were very big and there was obviously something very unusual going
on there.
They are not unknown elsewhere" This could prove another link to creatures
like Bigfoot, those that research the cryptid say that it too nests on the ground or in
caves a similar behavior that could have manifested due to the same cause, Sasquatch also having
nothing to fear.
The Bigfoot is also known to build and bend and manipulate trees and saplings into all
sorts of shapes maybe even creating tools, this behavior is seen with the Bondo apes.
The primatologist describes the Bondo as having a "smashing culture"
Having found hundreds of snails and hard-shelled fruits smashed for food, chimps were seen
carrying termite mounds to rocks to break them open and they also discovered a turtle
that was almost certainly smashed apart by these chimps.
As with chimp populations in other parts of Africa, the Bondo chimps use sticks to fish
for ants, but the Bondo apes take it to the next level with their 2.5 meter long tools.
The exciting thing about the Bondo is that it is much bigger than anyone first realized
and could be one of the largest remaining continuous populations of the species left
in Africa.
Mr Hicks and his colleague Jeroen Swinkels surveyed an area of 7,000 square kilometers
and found chimps everywhere.
Their unique culture being found throughout.
However, the future for the Bondo apes is far from secure.
"Things are not promising," said Karl Ammann, an independent wildlife photographer who began
investigating the apes 1996.
"The absence of a strong central government has resulted in most of the region becoming
more independent and lawless.
In conservation terms this is a disaster."
Maybe this provides us with the last and possibly saddest link to the Wildmen legends.
IF the Bondo numbers dwindle it's all too easy to see how they too could become a cryptid
creature once again.
Like Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and yeti they would be consigned to legend.
Fleeting glances of a 6 foot hominid form hiding in the jungle, the finding of discarded
tools maybe large footprints seen in the ground and hey presto we have a new Congolese Bigfoot
cousin.
We must also remember that Neanderthals got very cosy with humans.
Studies show that inter species relations were a thing and that hidden inside our genomes
are signs of ancestors that we never knew existed.
Geneticists call them "ghosts".
We may not have much in the way of the physical record for these ancient hominins, there are
sometimes no bones, no tools, and no archaeological remains whatsoever.
Yet the traces of genetic code which they left within the fossils of other hominins,
and even in living humans too, is offering profound and unprecedented insights into how
our species came to be.
Scientist have been studying the genomes of wild chimps and bonobos in central Africa.
They found odd fragments of DNA.
The fragments couldn't be explained by ancient matings with each other, or by random mutations.
The DNA, they say, comes from an unknown or "ghost" bonobo population
This population must have become isolated, evolved independently and later mixed back
in with its long-lost relatives.
Could that be the same with other types of cryptid hominid reported around the planet?
Do you think this discovery provides hope in finding Bigfoot or any of the many wildmen?
Do you think the Bondo Chimps are an example of an evolutionary jump occurring before our
very eyes?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
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