Some researchers already assumed that it was an alien, but a squirrel monkey.
The author of this joke is a taxidermist, Urso Ruiz Moreno.
Urso revealed the truth to the investigator Pablo Sanchez and then published in the forum "Reptiles".
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After learning the information, the issue can be summarized as follows:
The taxidermist Urso Ruiz Moreno developed an "alien" to play a prank on the horsemen. He never imagined the dimensions it would take. It did not for fame or money, however, now feels proud that his work is so well known.
He was in contact with the researcher Pablo Castro (known as Oxlack). Held its first version, but later it was telling how he did it:
"I prepared to leave the evidence that was not a monkey. I immersed myself in everything I had out there. There were fat fish, duck blood and iguana, and even horse more tanning is aluminum sulfate, ammonium sulfate, chromium, salt, formic acid and more. "
"For photos where it was said that he was alive I let it dry and managed more things, I put my hairs and pulled her elf ears."
This explains why the photographs are different to the example presented in a container. It is clear that arrangements, the "entity" was intentionally manipulated.
Urso interview by Ana Luisa Cid Moreno
- Really is a marmoset?
- Yes, it is a female marmoset.
- Is a baby a baby?
- No, he was 3 years old, normal size.
- Where did you get?
- I brought a client.
- How long did it take to do?
- Well, the first time was fast, one or two hours. Then I got better in 2 or 3 days.
- I read that "you got ears," how?, Do you put aside?
- No. The head skin, and if you scrape and a side ...
- Do you scrape to get a peck?
- Yes
- And the hairs?
- Well, you are putting one by one.
- Why do you think are not DNA?
- I guess because it melts in the tanning.
- What is the tanning?
- Acids and salts.
- What kind of trap is it?
- It's a trap for foxes.
- You got involved around the arm of the monkey?
- Yes, I got, so it broke and fell.
- Who was the first researcher to know the truth?
- At first it was a Oxlack chatted half, after a friend in the forum Reptiles. And after him out there and Captain Franz and becomes the show, and then finish counting either.
- "The captain contacted you?
- Not at all. On the contrary, it bothered me very much how he handled it. Could contacted me, I had my mail.
- How old do you have experience as a taxidermist?
- Twelve years.
- Have you done more figures as well, which turns one thing and another?
- Yes, several.
- Are you sold? I suppose you sell your works as taxidermist
- Yes, of course, a very similar fact I sold it as three, four years, the have a guy who knows Jaime.
- Something you want to tell anyone reading this interview ...
- Nothing special.
- Thank you, keep in touch
Urso should be clarified that not grossed Metepec his work. Not sold or took money to see it. Rather have been other people that are profiting from this artwork. Urso says again and again: "It was just a joke between friends, a joke so far, not even Mario."