New species of great ape?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3730574.stm

Thoughts?

:eek:

Oh, that’s just a variation within a ‘kind’…

:wink:

This came up awhile ago in GQ. It seems that these things are just unusually big chimps. The whole thing has been blown wildly out of proportion by this Shelly Williams, who seems to be a publicity hound.

Here’s a discussion of the actual evidence by Karl Amman, the photographer who originally found the apes.

ROFL.