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Does the Bili Ape Exist?
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The Bondo or Bili ape is said to be a group of huge chimpanzees in the deep Congo, gorilla sized, and dubbed by locals "lion eaters". Not much is known about these beasts but a few scary images have been captured and they are truly mind blowing. Here is one and you can see the sheer scale next to these people, not a lot of forced perspective too.
 *This image is copyright of its original author more pictures  *This image is copyright of its original author  *This image is copyright of its original author SCALE: The Bili ape has been reported to walk upright, bipedally 5 to 5 feet 6 inches tall, with the looks of a giant chimpanzee. Their footprints, which range from 28 to 34 centimeters, are longer than the largest common chimp and gorilla footprints, which average 26 cm and 29 cm, respectively. Bili ape skulls have the prominent brow ridge and may sometimes have a sagittal crest similar to that of a gorilla, but other morphological measurements are more like those of chimpanzees. Only one of the many skulls found at Bili had a sagittal crest, thus it cannot yet be considered typical for the population. Chimpanzee skulls are 190 to 210 millimeters long, but four out of five Bili ape skulls measured more than 220 millimeters, well beyond the end of the normal chimpanzee range. |
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