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Skunk Ape


One of the two Myakka Skunk Ape photographs taken in 2000
Creature

Name:	Skunk Ape
Classification
Grouping:	cryptid
Sub grouping:	hominid
Data
Country:	America
Region:	Southeastern States
Habitat:	Everglades
Status:	Unconfirmed

Is the Skunk Ape Real?

Description

The Skunk Ape is said to be approximately 7 feet tall with red hair, similar in appearance to an orangutan or gorilla, and to reside in or around the Florida Everglades.^[2]

[edit] Myakka photographs

In 2000, two photographs of an ape, said to be the Skunk Ape, were taken anonymously and mailed to the Sarasota Sheriff's Department in Florida. They were accompanied by a letter from a woman claiming to have photographed the creature in the palmettos at the edge of her backyard. The photographer claimed that for three nights the ape had entered her yard to take apples from a bushel basket on her porch. She was convinced it was an escaped orangutan. The police were called to the house continuous times but when they arrived the 'Ape' was gone. The pictures have become known to Bigfoot enthusiasts as the "Myakka skunk ape photos".^[3]

[edit] Further reading

Newton, Michael (2005). "Skunk Ape". Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide. McFarland & Company, Inc.. ISBN 0-7864-2036-7.
Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America (NY: Paraview Pocket-Simon and Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0-7434-6975-5), which contains primary historical material on Apes, Skunk Apes, and the Myakka photographs.
The song "Skookum Skunk Ape" by Willard's Canteen, on the album Judy Garland of Freshly Severed Heads (Bum's Ass Records, 2006).