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2004-10-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

new giant ape species may have been discovered

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Posted by muck4doo 2004-10-12 12:04|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Karl Rove is behind this. It's his continued efforts to take the focus off the election!!! If earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and asteroids won't do it, well, we'll throw in a brand new ape!!!

Posted by nada 2004-10-12 3:07:19 PM|| 2004-10-12 3:07:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Michael Moore?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-10-12 3:16:49 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2004-10-12 3:16:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I already saw that movie, dammit! But the scene where he climbs the Empire State building, and the biplanes are buzzing around him, is really neat...

Posted by Fred 2004-10-12 3:16:58 PM|| 2004-10-12 3:16:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought this was another posting about John Kerry.

Half chimp & half gorilla?
6-1/2 feet tall?

Are you sure it isn't a John Kerry article?

Posted by BigEd 2004-10-12 3:25:18 PM|| 2004-10-12 3:25:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually, this is fairly old news, and after the first round of articles had come out, there were releases of some genetic studies done of mitochrondiral DNA that showed these creatures as just another subspecies of Pan troglodytes, if it is a subspecies.

Fred: these apes have been known, but not well-known and not really well observed and sequenced, for about a century. They really were the basis for the fictional killer apes in the Michael Crichton book/movie "Congo."

The guy who rediscovered them, photographer and conservationalist Karl Ammann, has his own website:

http://karlammann.com/.

His recent activities seem to be centered around fighting the Bushmeat trade; he is the coauthor of two recent books, Consuming Nature, and Eating Apes.

Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-10-12 5:39:59 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com] 2004-10-12 5:39:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#6

His recent activities seem to be centered around fighting the Bushmeat trade; he is the coauthor of two recent books, Consuming Nature, and Eating Apes.

I hear his next one is titled "To Serve Man".

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-10-12 6:08:26 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-10-12 6:08:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I really miss The Twilight Zone.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-10-12 8:20:39 PM|| 2004-10-12 8:20:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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