Bili Ape : The Africa Legendary Ape That Kill Lion For Fun

The Bili Forest lies in the northern part of the DRC(Democratic Republic of the Congo) in a jungle-dense, almost entirely undeveloped country. Over half of the world's chimpanzees live in the DRC, and naturalists have always known — or believed at least — that chimps can also be present here. The Bili ape selection is not formally defined. Sometimes it's called the Bongo Ape (Bili and Bongo are two towns in the region), but scientists today refer to the 55,000 square kilometers in which this population is found as the Bili-Uéré area, named for Bili and the Uéré river, a tributary of the larger Uélé river.

Half of the area lies north of the Uélé and consists of sparse forest and savannah; the other half is south of the river and is a thick, stable forest. In the mid-1990s, a Swiss author, bushmeat activist and photographer named Karl Ammann saw mysterious skulls in a Belgian museum which appeared to be neither gorilla nor chimp, and which were said to have been collected by early colonists in 1898 from the Bili-Uéré region.

Determined to find these creatures, Ammann went there in 1996 and immediately began to find evidence of a new type of mystery ape, one that looked most like a chimpanzee but was larger and more gray, and had gorillas-like habits. For spite of the predators who push ordinary chimps up into the forest, it lived on the ground and did other things that were typical of gorillas, not chimp. Most impressively, he brought back a skull that seemed to be chimpanzee, but was bigger, and had the sagittal crest of a gorilla.

Also Ammann brought back legends from locals in Congo, stories of six feet tall aggressive mystery apes who walked upright and were immune to poison darts. There were many names for these apees in the local language, Zande. Amman translated two of them into The One Who Beat the Tree! And the one killing the lion