; z7 b1 r& f. t4 Y" I 有关此类黑猩猩最详尽的数据来自荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学的希克教授,他曾用18个月在当地对这种比利猿进行观察——当地小镇2004年后将之命名为比利猿。 ) S9 y, j J% D2 c D* a8 Y% d: @$ y
世界上一些知名生物学家都证实,过去谁也没见过比利猿,尤其是它们对月亮的依赖关系,到现在还是一个谜。 5 k5 e* k0 N4 Z1 k) |# ~ ' g" L: q4 i5 LFrom myth to reality - meet the chimps who eat lions ( Y) _2 o, u8 \, X# ^' N2 K! t! x8 z; {& g1 J7 O& u: k
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Some locals say they are eight feet tall and weigh 20 stone. Others claim they are even bigger, equipped with huge flesh-ripping teeth and muscles capable of dismembering a man. 9 G9 \6 [3 L: O7 p1 c. w % C% i- b0 @$ ^6 y! p jForest dwellers have told visiting explorers and scientists of a ferocious grey ape, with the cunning of a chimpanzee and the power and size of a gorilla - and a taste for meat rather than the shrubbery loved by most apes. For, unlike most apes, these are predators - capable of hunting not only forest antelope but, incredibly, lion and leopard too. And to cap it all, like wolves, these fearsome beasts howl at the Moon.