Orang-Pendek: The "short person" of Indonesia

The Orang-Pendak has been estimated to be only two and a half to five feet in height; name, in fact means "little man" or "short person." It walks upright, like a man, and has pinkish-brown skin under a covering of short, dark hair.

Adam Davies and Andrew Sanderson found footprints which seem to match examples they found three years ago, which were shown to be from a new species of ape...

...Mr Davies and Mr Sanderson also claim they tracked the creature to within 500 metres but were unable to follow it into dense jungle.

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What do you think? Could this be the genetic offspring of Homo Floresiensis? I personally hope they never find it; they would probably be put in a zoo!

[edit on 9/11/2008 by Orion52]

[edit on 9/11/2008 by Orion52]