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François de Loys
Geologist, Person
1892 –
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Who is François de Loys?
Louis François Fernand Hector de Loys was a Swiss oil geologist. He is remembered today for the claim that he discovered a previously unknown primate, De Loys' Ape, during a 1920 oil survey expedition in Venezuela. The identity of the animal he photographed has long been established with considerable confidence to be a spider monkey, and the identification as a new species is generally regarded as a hoax.
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