Talk:Mono Grande

Do you notice how there is no Spanish version of this article at all? I think North Americans (and maybe Europeans) have some sort of an obsession with large, invisible, ape-like creatures in the woods that come to eat people. I'm not sure why.Editfromwithout (talk) 18:05, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

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Some remarks

I've just read the article and some related wikis, and I am wondering

• if and in how far the Mono Grande is different from the Maricoxi
• why there is a general conclusion that New World monkeys cannot be that large. While a non-human hominid would have really had a hard time coming from Africa to South America, one cannot immediately rule out the existence of New World monkeys of great ape-like size. If the areas in question are now sufficiently explored to rule out the present existence of such creatures, they might have still lived there in the recent past. And fossil evidence is always somewhat "leaky", particularly in areas where humans reshape the ground without doing prior archaeological examinations. So we can't completely exclude something real behind the myth, even if some people in the past have (ab)used that myth to get public attention with science hoaxes.

I don't want to open a forum here (which would be against Wikipedia guidelines), I just wanted to mention that the conclusion of Mono Grande / Maricoxi being nothing but hoaxes may be rashed. Yes, we can pretty certainly rule out some great ape or archaic human because there is absolutely no evidence that any Old World monkey except Homo sapiens has reached America by natural means. But a more primitive monkey of human size could still be interpreted as something "almost human" by those who encounter it (as even upright standing bears can be misinterpreted as some sort of "human" - a common explanation for Bigfoot and Yeti sightings). By the way, bears might also be a possible explanation here. --130.83.182.66 (talk) 14:20, 1 July 2019 (UTC)