Yes, for now placed taxonomically in genus Pan with Bonobos and Chimpanzees. But with a nod to Carveth Read, the early proponent of the evolutionary “hunting hypothesis,” we believe but cannot yet prove that Albatwitch (Pan chlca sp. nov.) with their piloerective “cloaking” camouflage are not only a Great Ape but an evolved, “Lycopithecus.”
With the circa 1990, migration of Eastern Coyotes to Northeastern Pennsylvania from the Catskill Mountains of New York, Albatwitch developed a symbiotic relationship with the pack-hunting, wolf-hybrids to hunt whitetail deer, thereby, insuring Albatwitch survival among the carnivores that entered its habitat.
“Moreover, when our ape first pursued game, especially big game (not being by ancient adaptation in structure and instinct a carnivore), he may have been, and probably was, incapable of killing enough prey single-handed; and, if so, he will have profited by becoming both social and cooperative as a hunter, like the wolves and dogs – in short, a sort of wolf-ape (Lycopithecus).”
Carveth Read, “The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions” (1920)
Carveth Read (1848 – 1931) was a British logician, author of “Logic: Deductive & Inductive.” He was also an early proponent of the evolutionary “hunting hypothesis:”