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此前，人们曾认为这些猿类是某些类似雪人的动物或者是黑猩猩与大猩猩杂交的产物，但这些观点很快就被否定了。科学家们很快发现，它们实际上是一种大型的黑猩猩，但它们具有与其他黑猩猩不同的特性，那就是喜欢捕食大型猫科动物。0 u5 w4 j$ Z* R7 s% n7 }7 w
/ S I1 f+ @$ k! d$ i/ f$ _ 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。 5 P7 O j+ y8 S0 |7 _- B1 x" _% D6 X/ E$ K. f' G" G
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。 / ^9 _0 G/ p- W/ T7 V n& I$ |+ f4 k2 W9 [- t: S$ b: ^From myth to reality - meet the chimps who eat lions- O- q; q# q; @8 M1 f3 @8 b
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There is a growing belief that a 'super' sub-speices of chimps exists6 M0 K5 n4 b) p" S5 I8 \$ c
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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.& } Q9 c1 H' l4 O* ~
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Forest 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.
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