Huge Chimps that hunt and kill/eat Lions
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gafinfansubscriberOPHere we are looking for ET's when in fact we don't know all about our own world yet.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-468644/From-myth-reality--meet-chimps-eat-lions.html
This is the only thing I’ve learned: There’s only us. There’s no them. Despots and authoritarians need to make a “them” to have a straw man whom you are against. If you need to make an enemy of “them,” you’ve lost the spirit of us. - Ken Burns of PBS
CrunchTimeretired_adminI saw a program about wildlife on an island off Africa where lions are afraid of and stay well clear of water buffaloes normally a prey animal on the continent .
By a certain twist of evolution these buffaloes became the dominant animal on that island.
You learn something new everyday.
Here's some more of the Bili Apes; that's a wiki page on them.
There has been a few different articles on these Bili apes that has been published in the last decade. There was one in 2003 published, as well as 2004. The original article posted by gafinfan stated that there are some skeptics that believe its all a fairy tale, which I hope not because I think this is awesome lol, but this article says that it has been confirmed. An excerpt below.
Early speculation that the apes may be some yeti-like new species or a chimp/gorilla hybrid proved unfounded, but the truth has turned out to be in many ways even more fascinating. They are actually a population of super-sized chimps with a unique culture - and it seems, a taste for big cat flesh.
The most detailed and recent data comes from Cleve Hicks, at the University of Amsterdam, who has spent 18 months in the field watching the Bili apes - named after a local town - since 2004. His team's most striking find came after one of his trackers heard chimps calling for several days from the same spot.
When he investigated he came across a chimp feasting on the carcass of a leopard. Mr Hicks cannot be sure the animal was killed by the chimp, but the find lends credence to the apes' lion-eating reputation.
"What we have found is this completely new chimpanzee culture," said Mr Hicks. Previously, researchers had only managed to snatch glimpses of the animals or take photos of them using camera traps. But Mr Hicks used local knowledge to get closer to them and photograph them.
GREAT read GA! Thank you!
EDIT: Here's some more. Awesome read. Some images from the read below.
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There’s breaking news from a recent exploration to collect data on the Bili Ape:
Caption: Shelly Williams with the Bili Ape foot cast, 2003.
gafinfansubscriber"alen1 wrote:
Here's some more of the Bili Apes; that's a wiki page on them.
There has been a few different articles on these Bili apes that has been published in the last decade. There was one in 2003 published, as well as 2004. The original article posted by gafinfan stated that there are some skeptics that believe its all a fairy tale, which I hope not because I think this is awesome lol, but this article says that it has been confirmed. An excerpt below.
GREAT read GA! Thank you!
EDIT: Here's some more. Awesome read. Some images from the read below.
alen1, thanks man this is fantastic stuff.!!:up:
This is the only thing I’ve learned: There’s only us. There’s no them. Despots and authoritarians need to make a “them” to have a straw man whom you are against. If you need to make an enemy of “them,” you’ve lost the spirit of us. - Ken Burns of PBS
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