text: a beast named oliver that has one less chromosome than apes and one more than man? on reading about bigfoot , i saw a article that mentioned a creature named oliver that allegedly has one less chromosome than apes and one more chromosome than man.does anyone have any information on this creature? no such beast exists. the book was simply lying.  oliver is a plain old chimpanzee that has been tortured and abused so gullible people will pay money to see him and read books about him.  a female chimpanzee was shot in a rainforest in africa so her baby could be captured. the baby then had several of his teeth pulled out so his jaw would grow deformed. his head was burned with acid so the hair would not grow properly. the animal was then trained, almost certainly with excessive cruelty, to walk upright.  he was then displayed to gullible people as a monster. the only monsters were the people who did that to a helpless animal.  genetic tests have shown that oliver is just a plain chimpanzee. in fact genetic tests have even confirmed which tribe in africa he was stolen from.  interestingly since he started living with kinder owners his hair has largely regrown and he no longer shows a strong inclination to walk upright.   poor old oliver is just a badly abused and cruelly mistreated animal. he has the same number of chromosomes as any other chimpanzee.  none of this is a secret, there are countless websites that will confirm this. this is why i can safely say the people who wrote that book knew all this and simply lied about it.