I don´t like chimpanzees (they lack the Gorilla Mindset), but here are some interesting blog posts by Karl Shuker, a British cryptozoologist and frequent writer on the weird and wonderful. The topic? You guessed it: aberrant chimpanzees.
The "ghost" chimp of Nkata Bay was real and apparently quite friendly to humans, but strangely out of place. There are no chimpanzees in Malawi, where Nkata Bay is located. Koolookambas are also real, but probably not chimp-gorilla hybrids (thank God), but simply unusually looking chimpos from Gabon.
"Ape-Man" Oliver was a strange-looking but genetically perfectly regular chimpanzee hyped by the American media as some kind of "missing link", humanzee, or what have you. Oliver´s life was hard, at one point even being sold to a animal testing facility, but he was eventually saved and placed in an sanctuary. Interestingly, the ape was fully bipedal, the result of training and habituation, not some hideous mutation or hybrid origins.
The extraordinary creature mentioned in the fourth link is probably a hoax. Ahem, a spiny backed chimpanzee that walks upright on two legs? Shuker is very nice, as usual, trying to come up with alternative explanations, but unless this troglodyte shows up at the White House lawn, I refuse to believe it!
Ufiti - the ghost chimpanzee of Nkata Bay
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