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An image purportedly showing Hurilla, a hybrid human-gorilla infant, began recirculating online after it was shared by multiple viral content sites on 30 May 2016: The image displayed above has been the central focus of several fake news stories about hybrids of human beings and other species, although these stories frequently feature conflicting reports. For instance, the entertainment web site Stuppid used the image in an article claiming that the picture showed a humanzee, a cross between a human and a chimpanzee, and that the creature began life in Nigeria, not India. This photograph, however, shows neither a humanzee nor a hurrilla, nor any other form of hybrid animal. The original was taken in 2005 and captured a glimpse of a baby gorilla that had just been born at Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay, Florida: As many readers are unfamiliar with what a newborn gorilla looks like, the image of this onewas lightened and shared as a supposed photograph of a human-ape hybrid.
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