FRONTIERS OF ZOOLOGY Dale A. Drinnon has been a researcher in the field of Cryptozoology for the past 30+ years and has corresponded with Bernard Heuvelmans and Ivan T. Sanderson. He has a degree in Anthropology from Indiana University and is a freelance artist and writer. Motto: "I would rather be right and entirely alone than wrong in the company with all the rest of the world"--Ambroise Pare', "the father of modern surgery", in his refutation of fake unicorn horns.
someone tell me what hell is this in a tree make it bigger circled yellow
The upper part very likely is not attached to the main "Body" part. But the main "Body" does look very much like the head and body of a young orangutan, up in a tree, with the long arms hidden in the leaves and branches. It looks like an arm is coming off at the right and holding onto the nearest tree trunk on that side. It seems to have drawn up knees and a very definite orangutan face.
Scott Mardis submitted the following information:
from Vermont Monster Guide, 2009
Interestingly among the states other novelties there seems to be a traditional dragon or "Hippogryph", an "Agropelter" and a kind of swamp monster towards the bottom of the map (Tyler Stone's Freshwater monkey?) The giant snake shown in the middle of the map is supposed to be one of those "Giant Blacksnakes." I do also have an unconfirmed statement that giant salamanders live at Lake Champlain.
As to this "dinosaur" report, I'd like to be able to say it was a Plesiosaur seen on land, but on the other hand the reported dimensions are very much like the giant otter or "Master-otter" reports.
A recent posting by Jay Cooney at Bizzare Zoology compared the screen capture of an Algonquin Park drive-by video purporting to show a kind of ape. Jay said it was a Bigfoot and that he thought the head matched the skull of a Paranthropus (Robust Australopithecine) I disagrred and said it was something more apelike (If it is indeed a live creature and not a mock-up of some sort)
Here is the panoramic view of the shot where the apelike figure appears, and below a cropping of it
My comment was that the image was much too blurry to be certain of anything, and we needed a face-on view to be comparable whereas we would need a profile shot of establish if it was a Paranthropus or not. A Paranthropus has a more vertical profile where a common ape has a protruding muzzle and prominent canines. And as a counter-proposal, I did the comparison with an ordinary ape, an orangutan, the lower one with a direct superimposition of the skull on the photo (The skull is still not quite at the proper size and it is a mite too large for the direct comparson)
Here is a reconstruction of a Miocene Sivapithecine together with a reconstruction
of the fossil skull (which was partial) Below is the Canadian "ape face" again
Although it is difficult to make out I think I the lower face definitely has
a more elongated muzzle than a Paranthropus would have.
Jay also suggested that it was the samne as the Western Sasquatch
such as is shown in the Patterson-Gimlin film
A direct comparison shows that this Wood Ape from Canada has a smaller head
more pinched-in shoulders and much longer arms than 'Patty' has;
While by the same token, Patty is bigger and more heavily built than the Paranthropus, but once again a smaller head and longer arms, and is intermediate to the regular ape proportions in that.
In comparison to the Paranthropus , the Algonquin Park Wood Ape shows these
same features in an even more exaggerated sense. Head much smaller and arms longer still.
And so I did a series of comparisons to more mundane apes.
First a chimpanzee:
Then a comparison to a gorilla:
(The head seems closest here)
And then to the orangutan.
All in all I think the orangutan wins out because the overall
appearance is most similar, and especially the limb proportions are most similar.
Here is the source, from the Time-Life Nature Library book Evolution (the appendix)
And a comparison of the apes in general. I noted when I included this Harry Wilson Deviant Art illustration earlier that the Ufiti is in the Bili Ape size range and that the West African Bonobo is still an "Unknown animal"-classification of apes into species is still uncertain and cointroversial.
Here is the source video from YouTube. I believe Jay got his information about this from Bigfoot Evidence.
In this case, the best match for what people are reporting and recording on videotape is with the old-time lumberjack's "Fearsome Critter", the Agropelter (or Argopelter, or Arbopelter) a kind of a large monkey or ape that hides in the trees and makes its presence known by flinging down dead branches on the humans below. This is commonly written off as a complete invention, but please consider these two facts:
1) "Bigfoot" reports in the area commonly include the part about dead branches flung at witnesses,
and
2) This is a known behaviour of the orangutan among the known apes.
Along with this is the independant observation that the size, shape and colour of the "Bigfoot" in the video at the top of this entry exactly matches an orangutan also.
Agropelter Illustrations
"Monkey Up a Tree" in Maine -- "Gorilla in a Tree" in Quebec
Southernmost Ontario and Quebec might seem an unlikely place for a tree-living ape to settle, but in fact the area does supply a lot of acorns and pine nuts, and this section of Canada also has a large number of fruitbearing trees such as apple trees, being the only part of Canada where raising fruit trees is a commercially important local industry.
Orangutan up a tree, best match for this series of Reports
