Somebody:
Wading gibbons??
Of course,
only ex-aquarborealism explains why hylobatids are vertical, and have arms longer than legs:
google "aquarboreal ancestors".
Terrestrio-Arboreal ancestors
:-DDD
Nobody is interested in your fairy tales, my little boy. Grow up.
I predicted wading gorilla ancestors already a few several years before the wading gorillas of Ndoki were described.
Now we know not only Goirlla, but also Pan & Pongo had wading ancestors:
google "gorilla Ndoki", "bonobo wading", orangutan wading" etc.
Lesser apes left the swamp forests much earlier (Pliocene?) than great apes, who still wade occasionally (in spite of Pleistocene coolings).
It's not difficult: Miocene Hominoidea waded bipedally in forest swamps, and clmbed arms overhead in the branches above the swamp.
What we still don't know are the details, e.g. where these swamp forests mangroves? other swamps?
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