Latest expedition to Hunt the Amazonas Ape Man.
A team of crypto zoologists is headed for the South American jungle to track down a legendary ape man said to terrorize villages and tear out cattle tongues.
The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) has picked up sponsorship from a videogame firm to mount an expedition in Guyana in search of the Didi, also known as Mono Grande, reports Amazonas.travel.
The Mono Grande myth was first recorded by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Cieza de Leon. In 1553 Cieza de Leon wrote that local people feared mysterious forest creatures they called maribundas. Alleged sightings continued to be reported by visitors to the north of the continent across the centuries.

The most controversial report came from Swiss explorer Francois de Loys in 1920, which claimed his Expedition, was attacked on a river by pair of 5 feet tall apes walking upright and waving tree branches and throwing their own faces at them. The explorers shot the female Abe and photographed it (pictured).

The CFZ believes the Didi tales originate from a "living fossil" in the region: a surviving ground sloth that is assumed to have gone extinct 10,000 years ago. It's a more reasonable working hypothesis than any ape, since the highest primates known to have ever existed in South America are New World Monkeys. The expedition will head out in November.

Predictably, the web is infested with cryptozoology fanciers, though in fairness the field has a long history with some spectacular successes. African stories of the gorilla were widely assumed to be folklore until it was finally scientifically described in 1847. Indeed, at least 25 new primates have been discovered since 2000, including Bolivian native Callicebus aureipalatii, also known as the Gold monkey.

In 1997 the leader of the Sima Aonda travel expedition in Venezuela, Jorg Kaestner (diver and Explorer) brought back a skeleton of a small dog to our office in Caracas, unfortunately, we had to move our office shortly thereafter, and the skeleton of the dog / dinosaurs like creature got lost. Jorg Kaestner went back to Germany and we have never heard from him again, if someone has any information related to please contact us.