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The legend of De Loys's Ape

Ello!

  I got something to show you. 

  

  This is a painting of "De Loys's Ape". Here's some background: 

  Francois De Loys was once a Swiss Biologist. During one of his expeditions in search for oil in Venezuela from South America in 1920. While resting at a campfire, he and his crew found 2 apes that up until then we're never seen before. These apes started to freak out and shaking the branches while screaming and then starting to throw there own shit at them. In shock Loys's crew shot one of the apes in the chest killing it and the other one ran away. After that Loys took this photograph of it.

 Yes this is a real photo. Loys thought this was a long lost older species of man so he wrote it in his journal. The missing part of evolution to be exact. Probably also because it walked upright much more like a human. 

 Loys kept it in his jounal for years not telling it to anyone. It was discovered only years later  by his friend, French anthropologist George Montandon, and he thought it was also an older species of man. So much so that he published it. He faced numerous questions about the monkey. After that it didn't go that far when they inspected the body itself, revealing that one of the female sex organ that that represented one of a spider monkey, not to mention the similarities like the white chest  and the shape of the face.

 In the end it never really went anywhere other then some magazines of the time making stories about it. Leading to the popularity of the photo. Our boy De Loys died in 1935 and his friend ,whom turned out to be.. a nazi sympathiser... (yea), ended up getting assassinated in 1944. There's a very racist part of this story that came from him while trying to prove to people about his theory of the monkey being a evidence that diffrent type of people evolved from different type of monkeys. Like a black man came from gorillas and such. That of which is wrong.. on so many levels.. but I'm not qualified to talk about that I just know its wrong and.. very racist so I'll stop talking about it. 

  And we are at the end! Thanks for reading my blog! I hope you learned something new today or at I've at least entertained you for a little bit. If I got something wrong please tell me! Also note I DO NOT CONDONE WITH THE RACIST THEORIE I HOPE I MADE THAT CLEAR. Anyway THANKS FOR READING!! BYEEEEEEEEEEE :3

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birby (autoplay)

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Really interesting story, love it


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nyx ↻

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what the fuck that was actually interesting DO ANOTHER ONEE BTW


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Anyad

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these are the weirdest things ive ever seen good god THAT IS TERRIFYING. But tbh id hang that painting in my house. Above the toilet. Hell yeah.


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