0 F% Q k: O; U- g( P 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。& u3 B/ J0 o4 m, ~; ~7 \
' w' v6 L' G" l2 S. x 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。% s+ o; G! }% U
0 T: |3 U; f9 N9 [ \From myth to reality - meet the chimps who eat lions 2 k; T* Q2 ]+ t7 \$ j* q( L0 c ?7 T9 X2 ?' [
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There is a growing belief that a 'super' sub-speices of chimps exists . S; K: Q7 @" p z, Z8 H; S0 i2 T1 f; R, T* m+ Y
! {# k* ?, G' r( l/ S) R& ZSome 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. 5 R* q+ H, g) X% l3 _* l; w: [0 V4 g% }
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.