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A New Species Of Giant Ape?
jd writes "The New Scientist, The Age (an Australian newspaper), Daily Telegraph (a British newspaper), BBC, and the Discovery Channel are talking excitedly about a strange primate, found in the Congo. Locals say it is notorious for killing fully-grown adult lions. Optimists hope that it is a new species, maybe related to the gorilla. Pessimists claim it's an overgrown chimpanzee. In either case, primates aren't discovered every day, making this a rare find indeed."
I've already discovered a couple of those in my local pub.
. . . Peter Jackson began production on his remake of king Kong in the Congo last week . . .
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If the answers to these questions are yes, then we need to get a gorilla that understands sign language ASAP.
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They were coming in for the kill. I was directly in front of them, and as soon as they saw my face, they stopped and disappeared.
An ape capable of killing lions ran away after a peek--that must have been one ugly face!
I for one welcome our new hitherto unknown giant congolese ape overlords
He/She/it's already on the US 'Do not fly' list
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King of the Jungle, kills lions with bare hands?
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I believe Ms Williams has stumbled across the breeding/training ground for Microsoft's army of evil monkeys.
I'm glad that the cliche about technology (it will be applied first in porn) does not apply to zoological discoveries too.
*phew*
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
In either case, primates aren't discovered every day
I discover primates every day! Why, just today, I discovered a bus full of them. They made incessant noises and smelled funny, but they were indisputably primates. However, when I tried to mimic one of their mating rituals, I was physically assaulted, a very disappointing turn of events for science.
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Quick! Capture one so we can pit it against a silverback in an offshore knife fight!
There is speculation that it might be a gorilla/chimp hybrid species. I'm hoping the chimp was the 'giver' in that scenario.
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I wonder why they stopped attacking when they saw her...
Gorilla-panzee 1: OMG- did you see that thing!?!
Gorilla-panzee 2: yeah! what the hell was it?
Gorilla-panzee 1: I dunno, but it didn't have a snout and had like almost no fur except for its head.
Gorilla-panzee 2: yeah, I swear I was gonna barf if I had to look at it longer
Gorilla-panzee 1: you don't think it was a human do you? like from those stories we heard as kids?
Gorilla-panzee 2: don't be stupid, humans are made up just like the Yeti and Bigfoot are.
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I need sleep.
"If this had been a bluff charge, they would have been screaming to intimidate us. These guys were quiet. And they were huge. They were coming in for the kill. I was directly in front of them, and as soon as they saw my face, they stopped and disappeared."
I wonder what kind of face she has ?
strange primate?
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kills lions?
I think they're called Home Sapiens, they've been around for a while.
maybe if we give them an infinite number of typewriters, they'll recreate the source for windows?
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Chips? You probably mean the kind made with Olestra. 'Cuz they "may cause oily discharge." That would be pretty brutal.
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They just get larger then most chimps, which is not totally uncommon.
In fact about half of all chimps are larger than most chimps!
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There is a video of this Giant Ape here
http://64.203.97.121/images/gallery/19.jpg http://64.203.97.121/images/gallery/19.jpg
Only as long as the other four lions do not join to create the almighty VOLTRON
I guess the "fully-grown" lion, figuratively AND literally, is going "Ape-Shit", for:
1. being threatened
2. being eaten
THAT is really about the ape getting it's "lion's share" of the food chain.
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>I wonder why they stopped attacking when they saw her...
she gave them access to her gmail account.
So your plan is, you want to use a short range stun gun designed to briefly knock out a human, use it on an unknown species of ape which hunts in packs and may or may not be able to kill lions with its bare hands. And then you're going to stick your hands in it's mouth while it's 'stunned'.
Can't say I'm surprised no one has implemented your plan.
...They don't care about how it might be for our ancestors...
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Donno about yours, but my ancestors are all pretty much dead, don't get me wrong they should rest in peace, but I'm not all that concerned about what they think about stuff
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Damce. monkey boy, dance!
(read this a humorous junk science...)
Like Vulcans, THIS particular ape has a superprocessor gland which reprocesses fecal matter extremely efficiently. There is efficacy to this this modality. By extraction the most of the moisture, the condensed, ambient-temperature-dried fecal matter is less of a matter for this beast. Being a water-carrying creature, it has no need for humps on its back or breasts, as it can shed the containers as necessary.
Flight or Fight is probably not an issue for this king of the jungle, for if it can take down a full-sized, adult lion, it probably has no need to dump its bowels in one instance while running.
Possibly, the pellets can serve as "bread crumbs" for its own kind to keep up, or as a "bait and switch" lure for its prey. Prey dumb enough to follow THAT shit is prey that better pray.
By exploiting this quirk in nature, the whacky of presidents can authorize expenditures in the effort to have fewer sleepless nights "wond'rin' hwo to pertekt da 'merikun peep-hole"...
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If X is the new Y, and Y is "X is the new Y", solve for X.
It's _unnatural_ to keep species alive when they should've gone extinct due to _natural_ causes (changing climate etc).
First you say our actions are natural, now you say their unnatural. Make up your mind, you damn flip flopper.
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> The apes thought they were going after a wounded antelope, when they realized they had been tricked, they ran away.
Curiously, when the explorers returned to camp they found that their beds had been short-sheeted.
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