Does the Bili Ape Exist?

[Sully]

"My very first contact, on April 8 2005 with the naïve Gangu Chimpanzees. Up until this point the bili apes near the road would always flee our team in terror. But just as tracker Ligada had said, these chimpanzees in the remote Gangu Forest reacted more with curiosity than fear. The adult male in the video continues feeding as he watches us. In the weeks ahead, as we travelled deeper into the forest, the chimpanzees would get less and less afraid. (Cleve Hicks / Wasmoeth Wildlife Foundation)

"In January 2007, deep in the Gangu Forest, we encountered multiple individuals at this fig tree over a three day period. One adult male even approached us on the ground to check us out. Here is footage of another adult male peering down at us from the canopy. He moved off at the end, but apparently not very far. His companion, another adult male, remained in the canopy peering at us from behind the leaves. Cleve Hicks, The Wasmoeth Wildife Foundation"

Here the woman claims the chimpanzee Kermit is the size of a female gorilla, and the largest in captivity (video posted in 2007 though the description notes the facility no longer exists). She further adds he may be one of the newly discovered species of "giant chimpanzee" (presumably referring to the Bili ape). She says they took a DNA sample and were going to analyse it of which I have yet to find results.

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