Comments on: Viet Rock Apes: Vet Confirmation

By: armst3k

armst3k — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:31:47 +0000

My father, a member of the Marine’s Force Recon unit at the time, can confirm this as well. More specifically, they encountered a colony of them when first establishing and securing the infamous “Rock Pile.” He said that they lived about half way up, and were very aggressive in nature.

By: korollocke

korollocke — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 23:21:39 +0000

My grandfather retired Air Force Master Sargent Richard D Locke will give you confirmatiom as soon as he returns from polson montana at the end of the month as he saw them many times. I told him of the interest in the rock apes and has agreed to share his info about them with Loren.

By: DWA

DWA — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:52:32 +0000

Matt: It’s not an impossible stretch to put this to gibbon/siamangs.

But it would require some stretching. And the aggressive behavior attributed to these animals doesn’t seem characteristic of those animals.

I think that “the jungle” meant to a lot of Americans: anything you see out there is to be expected. I would also think that scientific documentation was way down on the list of to-dos in a war zone. Wonder how many servicemen saw a saola and went: another jungle critter?

By: Lu Ann Lewellen

Lu Ann Lewellen — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:11:28 +0000

Bernard Heuvelmans thought the Minnesota Iceman was smuggled out of Vietnam in a body bag. Does 2+2 = anything significant?

By: MattBille

MattBille — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:55:14 +0000

It does not seem too much of a stretch to put a species of the gibbon/siamang group in Vietnam.