Comments on: New Cryptid Ape Reports in Florida

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:51:10 +0000

I have a bit of a soft spot for the Myakka ape photos and still think they are some of the best photos of a supposed cryptid. The video clip image COULD be a chimp. It COULD be a skunk ape, it COULD be a lot of things. I can’t make it out well enough to really even begin to proclaim it as one thing over another. I could tell more if I could see it move, or see multiple frames of it in different positions.

Concerning the Glen St. Mary account, I find it interesting that the article mentions that no one is licensed to have an orangutan in Baker County. But isn’t the whole thing with the black market, illegal trade in animals that these people don’t HAVE licenses to keep them? No one having a legal license to have an orangutan to me is not evidence that no one ever kept one there nor is it evidence that the “creature” couldn’t have been an escaped pet. Lack of any licenses to own one doesn’t make me want to skip to another unknown conclusion. A large reddish ape sitting up in a tree sounds exactly like an orangutan to me. The color is right and orangutans are mostly arboreal. Don’t know about their appetite for jelly donuts, though.

By: DrRob1967

DrRob1967 — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:47:50 +0000

You know I’m all for saying that’s a chimp in the video, but that still pic looks way too staged and way too much like a “Harry and the Hendersons” sasquatch costume.

By: dbmers

dbmers — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:11:05 +0000

I’m not saying what it is or isn’t, but you have to remember that Fla is the land of exotic animals that have escaped or been released by their owners.

By: lucidknight

lucidknight — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:08:42 +0000

This is a very interesting picture the problem is that apes, infact all higher primates lack a tapetum lucidum (the membrane that refects light in the eyes.) I would expect it to be a red reflection because of the blood vessels not yellow.

By: Alligator

Alligator — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:27:14 +0000

About 15 years ago, a small child in our rural county was playing in her yard when in her words, “a little hairy man” came out of the woods walked up to her and bit her. She had to be given tetanus and rabies shots. Investigation by the sheriff and wildlife officials led to the discovery that a large rhesus monkey had escaped from it’s owner who lived a couple of miles away.

Eventually, the monkey was recaptured, its owner sued and cited for holding the animal without the proper permits. I suspect that people holding exotic animals illegally is a lot more widespread than the average person might think. Florida especially has been a hotbed for exotic pets.

Thehoch made a very good point about some of these photos are going to have to be much better than “300 yard away grainy shots” of indeterminate animals before they be considered convincing. I too appreciate that Loren Coleman takes a “conservative” approach when reviewing some of this evidence. Certain other sites make too many pronouncements then end up eating a little crow, which in the long run only impedes serious investigation of cryptids.

By: treeclaw

treeclaw — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:19:02 +0000

Yawn, hoax or an escaped pet.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:27:35 +0000

Sounds like a hoax, although I tend to agree that most of these sightings cannot be chalked up to escaped creatures or hoaxes. Although the Myakka Whatever COULD be an escaped orangutan. Scott Marlowe is probably right on that one.

Overall, I think us supposedly “advanced” humans are not as knowledgeable of what is out there in the piney woods as we think we do. As Keel once pointed out, we know more about the surface of the moon than we do abour own oceans. Same goes for THE GREAT OUTDOORS.

By: thehoch

thehoch — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:24:53 +0000

I’ve been reading the articles on cryptomundo for a few years now and I love the site and the articles are fun to read….BUT!

Enough of these pictures of these supposed crypto-creatures that are taken from 300 yards away with a blurry resolution.

If cryptozoology ever wants to get respect, it’s going to finally have to come up with definitive pictures or videos. These type of Skunk Ape pics, while entertaining, really get old.

Keep up the good work though Mr.Coleman. This is my first post and I plan on posting for now on after hiding in the forest like a bigfoot.

By: karen.sherman

karen.sherman — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:28:04 +0000

Exactly my first thought, squatch-toba. Jelly doughnuts??! That’s like trying to lure a cat of a tree with jalapenos.

By: baronvondoren

baronvondoren — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:33:49 +0000

As a resident of the area where the “chimp” was seen, I have to note that all three locations (Myakka, Gulf Breeze and Glen St. Mary) are pretty far apart geographically and have very different environments. People tend to lump all the primate cryptids together, but the reports up here in NW Florida are very different than the ones from the central and southern parts of the state. Florida is a BIG place! As for the “chimp,” everything I could gather from the bit of investigation I did myself, most people felt that it was in fact an escaped animal or a hoax and was not significant to Cryptozoology. The Panhandle of Florida is rich in Skunk Ape sightings, but they are very much like the creatures sighted in Alabama…