[blam]

I'm presently watching a one hour documentary about the Orang-Pendek on the National Geographic Channel.

[neodad]

This thread should be fun. Kerry pictures in 4, 3, 2, 1........

[Brett66]

Did they say how tall it was?

[pissant]

I think this might be it...

[muawiyah]

http:www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification/uspcd12/cd12s513.gif

Strange footprint.

[peyton randolph]

I can see the resemblance to a yeti...but he must have shaved.

[keithtoo]

Footprints are useless in photographs. They always look like a nebulous patch of mud.

[blam]

FYI.

Relatives of the 'Hobbits?'

[Slings and Arrows]

Found it.

[Brett66]

After googling it, it appears that the orang pendek is only 3-4 ft. tall. About chimp-sized.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I am sure that they also live in North Florida. I only need $100,000.00 to start a serious expedition. All investors will recieve mention, and an autographed photo!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

It's got to be related to Howie!

[elli1]

"When we arrived in Bukkantingi, we were told by the villagers that they had seen the orang pendek only two days earlier.... "They said they had seen it eating soft fruit in farmland on the edge of their village...."We made base camp there and, two days later, one of our Indonesian guides heard it calling...."The prints had been made that day, our guides told us, and we also heard it calling,...

Didn't want to mention it before, but I've caught glimpses of an orang pendek in the woods behind my house. No doubt, given a little financial incentive, I could locate some footprints back there....

[pcottraux]

Crypto ping!!!

[SunkenCiv]

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[S0122017]

DNA is convincing. It isnt easy to fake, it would usually show. Not impossible, but still.

And there are bound to be many small monkeys out there that havent been classified yet.

I dont get why people are so suspicious? I guess it is like a programmed response against the 'yeti' association.
The would have better make it a more firmer statement that it wasnt supernatural.

[Graymatter]

Neandertal guy. Over here! *ping*

[Graymatter]

Three years earlier, they found hairs and prints which were analysed independently by scientists and shown to be from an unknown species.

All this time later, they still don't know if the hairs came from a genus homo or a red-haired chimp? Hmmmm.
Methinks somebody doesn't like loggers.

[Antoninus]

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