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The Bili apes, or Bondo mystery apes, were names given in 2003 in sensational reports in the popular media to a purportedly new species of highly aggressive, giant ape supposedly inhabiting the wetlands and savannah around of the village of Bili in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 53 relations: ABC News (Australia), Aketi (town), Ango Territory, Ape, Australopithecine, Bas-Uele District, Belgium, Bili Forest, Biological Conservation (journal), Boa people, Bondo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bushmeat, Buta, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Chimpanzee, Civil war, CNN, Colin Groves, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Discover (magazine), Eastern chimpanzee, Ebola River, Experimental psychology, Feces, Genetic testing, George Schaller, Gold mining, Gorilla, Hominidae, Karl Ammann, Lingala, Macrotermes, Mangani, Mitochondrial DNA, National Geographic, National Geographic Society, New Scientist, Pant-hoot, Rainforest, Sagittal crest, Sahelanthropus, Savanna, Second Congo War, Strangler fig, Subspecies, Sympatric speciation, Tarzan, Taxonomy (biology), The Guardian, Time (magazine), ... Expand index (3 more) »

  2. Chimpanzees
  3. Hominid cryptids
  4. Purported mammals

ABC News (Australia)

ABC News, also known as ABC News and Current Affairs and overseas as ABC Australia, is a public news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Aketi (town)

Aketi is a town in the Bas-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Ango Territory

Ango Territory is a territory in the Bas-Uele Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Ape

Apes (collectively Hominoidea) are a clade of Old World simians native to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (though they were more widespread in Africa, most of Asia, and Europe in prehistory), which together with its sister group Cercopithecidae form the catarrhine clade, cladistically making them monkeys.

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Australopithecine

The australopithecines, formally Australopithecina or Hominina, are generally any species in the related genera of Australopithecus and Paranthropus.

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Bas-Uele District

Bas-Uele District (District du Bas-Uele, District Beneden-Uele) was a district of the Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Bili Forest

Bili (coordinates 4°9'N 25°10'E), which is about 200 km east of Bondo and 250 km north of Buta, is a city in the Bas-Uélé District in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa.

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Biological Conservation (journal)

Biological Conservation is a peer-reviewed journal of conservation biology.

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Boa people

The Baboa people (singular Boa, also Ababua, Ababwa, Babua, Babwa, Bwa) are an ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Bondo, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bondo (formerly Djabir) is a town in north-central Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Bas-Uele Province, about 200 km north-west of Buta.

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Bushmeat

Bushmeat is meat from wildlife species that are hunted for human consumption.

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Buta, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Buta is a city in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, lying on the Rubi River, a tributary of the Itimbiri River.

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Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa.

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Chimpanzee

The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), also simply known as the chimp, is a species of great ape native to the forests and savannahs of tropical Africa. Bili ape and chimpanzee are chimpanzees.

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Civil war

A civil war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or country).

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Colin Groves

Colin Peter Groves (24 June 1942 – 30 November 2017) was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Discover (magazine)

Discover is an American general audience science magazine launched in October 1980 by Time Inc.

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Eastern chimpanzee

The eastern chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) is a subspecies of the common chimpanzee. Bili ape and eastern chimpanzee are chimpanzees.

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Ebola River

The Ebola River, also commonly known by its Ngbandi name Legbala, is the headstream of the Mongala River, a tributary of the Congo River, in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Experimental psychology

Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes.

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Feces

Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.

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Genetic testing

Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, is used to identify changes in DNA sequence or chromosome structure.

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George Schaller

George Beals Schaller (born 26 May 1933) is an American mammalogist, biologist, conservationist and author.

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Gold mining

Gold mining is the extraction of gold by mining.

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Gorilla

Gorillas are herbivorous, predominantly ground-dwelling great apes that inhabit the tropical forests of equatorial Africa.

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Hominidae

The Hominidae, whose members are known as the great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); Gorilla (the eastern and western gorilla); Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo); and Homo, of which only modern humans (''Homo sapiens'') remain.

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Karl Ammann

Karl Ammann is a Swiss conservationist, wildlife photographer, author and documentary film producer.

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Lingala

Lingala (Ngala) (Lingala: Lingála) is a Bantu language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the northern half of the Republic of the Congo, in their capitals, Kinshasa and Brazzaville, and to a lesser degree in Angola, the Central African Republic, Kenya and southern South Sudan.

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Macrotermes

Macrotermes is a genus of termites belonging to the subfamily Macrotermitinae and widely distributed throughout Africa and South-East Asia.

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Mangani

Mangani is the name of a fictional species of great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of the invented language used by these apes.

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Mitochondrial DNA

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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National Geographic

National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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New Scientist

New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.

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Pant-hoot

The pant-hoot is a loud, structurally complex vocalization of chimpanzees. Bili ape and pant-hoot are chimpanzees.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.

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Sagittal crest

A sagittal crest is a ridge of bone running lengthwise along the midline of the top of the skull (at the sagittal suture) of many mammalian and reptilian skulls, among others.

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Sahelanthropus

Sahelanthropus is an extinct genus of hominid dated to about during the Late Miocene.

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Savanna

A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.

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Second Congo War

The Second Congo War, also known as Africa's World War, the Great War of Africa, or the Great African War, began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 2 August 1998, little more than a year after the First Congo War, and involved some of the same issues.

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Strangler fig

Strangler fig is the common name for a number of tropical and subtropical plant species in the genus Ficus, including those that are commonly known as banyans.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Sympatric speciation

In evolutionary biology, sympatric speciation is the evolution of a new species from a surviving ancestral species while both continue to inhabit the same geographic region.

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Tarzan

Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, a feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer.

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Taxonomy (biology)

In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Uele River

The Uele, also known by the phonetically identical Uélé, Ouélé, or Welle River, is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Western gorilla

The western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) is a great ape found in Africa, one of two species of the hominid genus Gorilla.

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Ynet

Ynet (stylized as ynet) is one of the major Israeli news and general-content websites, and is the online outlet for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

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See also

Chimpanzees

Hominid cryptids

Purported mammals

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bili_ape

Also known as Billy ape, Bondo Ape, Bondo Apes, Lion Killer, The billy ape, Tree Beater.

, Uele River, Western gorilla, Ynet.