This strange creature resembles a primitive man, has no ape tail, has 32 teeth, and is 1.60 to 1.65 meters tall.
The Ameranthropoides loysi, a strange ape-like creature, was shot by Swiss geologist François de Loys in 1917 on the Venezuelan-Colombian border. The creature looks like a hominid, has no ape tail, has 32 teeth, and is 1.60 to 1.65 meters tall.
Delo was leading an expedition to the Tara and Maracaibo rivers to find oil when he encountered two great apes, one male and one female. The great ape threw his own feces at the expedition, and the expedition members shot back at the great ape, the male great ape was shot on the spot, and the female great ape fled injured.
In order to facilitate the photoshoot, the team put the body of the male great ape on a wooden box and supported its jaw with a wooden stick so that the corpse could stand upright. After taking this picture, Delo ordered the creature to be skinned, intending to keep its fur and skull, but the expedition members gave up because they were troublesome. Later, they took many more photos, but the boat on which the expedition was traveling encountered flooding and overturned, and the photos taken later were lost.
When Delo returned to Switzerland, he told no one about the creature. However, in 1929, anthropologist Georges Montarton discovered the photograph while searching for information in Delo's notes on indigenous tribes in South America and persuaded Loews to publish it in an English-language newspaper.
Later, several works on this mysterious creature were published in France, and Georges Montanton proposed its scientific name to the French Academy of Sciences.
Montanton described the species as an American hominid called the Delo Great Ape, but his approach was heavily criticized by academics. According to British naturalist Sir Arthur Keith, the photograph shows only one species of black-palmed spider monkey living in the area studied, with its tail deliberately cut off or hidden in the photograph.
Black-palmed spider monkeys are common in South America, reaching a height of nearly 110 cm when erect. However, the monkey in Dello's photo is 157 centimeters tall, which is much taller than all known species.
Montandon was fascinated by the monkey. He proposed the name "Delo Great Ape" in three separate scientific journal articles. However, scientists have always been skeptical.
Historians Pierre Saint Liverre and Isabel Girraud wrote in 1998 arguing that anthropologist Montanton had always held racist views on human evolution and considered the whole story about the "great ape of Delo" a hoax.
What evidence does Montandon have that this monkey is more than just a black-palmed spider monkey? After all, the species in the photo have long been gone, and nothing can be proved by just one photo, not to mention can he be sure that this photo was taken in South America?
This is one of the mysteries. Leaving aside the question of which primate the "Delo Great Ape" belongs to, even if it is a monkey, can you confirm that it must be from South America? There are no native monkeys in the United States, only exotic monkeys. Africa is home to chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos, while Asia is home to orangutans, gibbons. If DeLo does discover a previously unknown great ape in South America, it will fundamentally change our understanding of great ape evolution.
Anyway, I don't understand how a monkey can upend our understanding of human evolution. What do you think?
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