What is de Loy's Ape?
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Lisa Marchande
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Also known as De Loys' Ape, it's an animal found by Dr. Francois de Loys during an expedition in South America around 1920. When two of them attacked their party, they shot one, and took a photograph of it, because they'd not seen a creature like it. He returned to Europe, and largely forgot about it until French anthropologist Georges Montandon saw the photo, and speculated it was an ape - significant because apes don't exist in the Americas, only monkeys. This hypothesis was met with fierce resistance, and the counter-suggestion it was only a large spider monkey, or even a man-made fraud, stitched together out of parts from various animals. Further information, including the photo: http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/hominids/drfrancois.htm
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