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Bigfoot.
Like, there's probably not any alive today. Probably not any in the last thousands years even.
But at some point in human history, that shit existed. Might even just be stories about gorillas that ancient hominids took out of Africa and kept telling afterwards.
For a stone age human, a silverback might as well been a mythical animal. And they're deceptively quiet. Imagine just walking thru the forest and seeing a fucking Silverback standing 10 feet away staring at you.
That story would keep getting retold long after people forgot what a gorilla was.
My favorite example of this is on the island of Flores, where old local folklore says that, in the woods and caves, you can sometimes find hairy, tiny ape people.
Cue homo floresiensis, an early branch of humanity that lived on the island for a long time before homo sapians sapians showed up and had some overlapping time with them. They are very short based on what skeletons we have found....and their anatomy suggests that they looked closer to apes than humans.
Is that the Flores island in Guatemala or in BC?
Flores in Indonesia
Ah! Very cool! Thank you so much, just went on a neat Google maps explore.