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Napes or North American Apes (a name given to the apes by Loren Coleman in the 1960's) Have been reported from the South Eastern and Mid-Western US from at least the 1800's to the present. Other reports speak of similar ape-like animals in specific bottom land swamps. For example Howard Dreeson gave bananas to a chimpanzee that visited him regularly near his home in Oklahoma from 1967 to 1970. During 1979 North Carolina witnesses claimed encounters with Knobby. Napes appear to be a population of Chimpanzee like apes that inhabit the bottom lands and vast network of closed canopy deciduous and mixed forests of the Mississipi Valley and its tributaries. Some are dimly remembered and regional folklore and 20th century reports of Gorillas and Chimps. In 1962, Kenneth J. Manship and Jerry D. Coleman discovered a footprint complete with composed left toe (characteristic of the footprint of a mountain gorilla or chimpanzee) in a dry creek bed near Decatur, Illinois. However, the track was later revealed to have been a hoax perpetrated by either Manship or Dave Nichols. Similar -- but supposedly authentic -- prints have been reported from such diverse locations as Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. During the series of the 1971 sightings of 2 Chimpanzee like apes, termed skunk apes in some press accounts. A Broward County, Florida, rabies control officer said to have found nothing but a bunch of strange tracks like someone was walking on their knuckles. Of course this is far from nothing knuckle walking is exactly what would be expected of an unknown Anthropoid Ape. - entry provided by TR, ajredalert@yahoo.com
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