# New species of great ape?

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**Created:** [October 12, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-great-ape/268742 "2004-10-12T00:06:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-great-ape/268742/1 "2004-10-12T00:06:44Z")

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[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3730574.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3730574.stm)

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-great-ape/268742/2 "2004-10-12T00:12:24Z")

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> They could be hybrids, the product of gorillas mating with chimpanzees.

:eek:

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**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-great-ape/268742/3 "2004-10-12T00:22:44Z")

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

😉

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-great-ape/268742/4 "2004-10-12T01:04:15Z")

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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](http://karlammann.com/bondo.html) a discussion of the actual evidence by Karl Amman, the photographer who originally found the apes.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2004, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-great-ape/268742/5 "2004-10-12T08:13:00Z")

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> [@Meatros](#):
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> Oh, that’s just a variation within a ‘kind’…

ROFL.