At Cryptomundo, Loren Coleman reports that a US Navy SEAL unit encountered a group of strange apes in the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to Loren, the information comes from a reliable source and fits in with the area's history of weird cryptids. The drawing here, by Harry Trumbore, is from the forthcoming book The Field Guide to Bigfoot, by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, to be published by Anomalist Books. It depicts the kalanoro, a "short, three-toed, bipedal, water-dwelling, mean, scruffy-hair hominoid" apparently known to tribes in Madagascar. From the blog post:
What the former SEAL relates is that he was involved in covert operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1997 and 2002. According to his account, his team observed a group of thirteen "chimpanzee-like" creatures between 4.5 to 5 feet tall, uniformly gray all over their bodies, with rows of seemingly porcupine-like quills running the length of their backs.
The unidentified apes walked bipedally and were observed by the SEAL team in the act of killing another animal. When the creatures became excited or agitated, the quills or spines stood erect from their bodies.
According to this informant, the US Navy SEAL team took three minutes of video footage of these creatures, but this tape apparently has been classified, due to their mission.
