Comments on: New Photo: Is It A Skunk Ape?

By: hammerhead

hammerhead — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:55:34 +0000

looking at the palms and other aspects of the background leads me to believe that this is alot larger than you might think at first glance

By: DWA

DWA — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:03:39 +0000

All I can say to those who think that it’s odd to think “known primate” before “skunk ape” is: Occam’s Razor works in mysterious ways.

There are indeed populations of wild primates in FL, and no I’m not talking New Jersey Oldsters or Rednecks.

There’s at least one such population, of rhesus monkeys on the Silver River near Silver Springs. Saw ‘em in 1990 on a canoe trip up the Silver. No, these are NOT the tame ones at the Tarzan Jungle Thingie at the Springs proper, although they’re apparently descended from animals that escaped that show. The behavioral differences are obvious; the wild ones stayed in the trees and wouldn’t let us within 100 yards. There’s all kinds of other possibilities for escapes; FL is just so much like Africa that some of us just couldn’t resist. Humans are so that way.

If it looks like a known primate, in FL, it almost certainly is.

Not that I’m saying for sure what this is. A clearer shot might be nice.

By: kittenz

kittenz — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:08:32 +0000

It looks more like a long-haired monkey such as a colobus monkey, than a chimp.

By: Geoff Woods

Geoff Woods — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:16:03 +0000

Definitely a skunk ape. I mean…this photo stinks!

By: Scarfe

Scarfe — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:16:33 +0000

Occam’s razor suggests that this is probably a chimp that, for some reason, is in the area. But I am not willing to rule out the possibility that this is an unknown primate given the evidence we have. Certainly one would assume an unknown primate of this size and proportions would be a chimp. Interesting to see how this develops.

By: U.T. Raptor

U.T. Raptor — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:02:38 +0000

Looks like a chimp to me…

By: shumway10973

shumway10973 — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:40:00 +0000

Actually, to me, my choices are baboon or the skunk ape is learning how to play football. That is almost the perfect stance for a linebacker or something. From all the reports I’ve read, skunk apes are just that, apes. The are not anything lower that walks on all 4’s. I know, I know, all known apes walk on all 4’s, but we are talking about another group of sasquatch here. They walk upright like you and I. Probably just another crazy person in a gorilla suit trying to fool the world.

By: a_welch90

a_welch90 — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:35:23 +0000

It is an interesting picture, but it doesn’t prove anything other than somebody has had a chimp as a pet and let it go. I’m voting chimp here.

By: planettom

planettom — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:05:25 +0000

Not a skunk ape.

By: sausage1

sausage1 — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:47:31 +0000

Addendum Re SMiles

Just waiting for the editor of the Gulf Wheeze Clarion and Bugle to tell us he’s seen it as well, as have his mum, dad, au pair and Bedlington Terrier, and publish a TOTALLY convincing and fraud proof polaroid to prove it..

Human.