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| The '''Orang Pendek''' or '''Orang Pendak''' is a [[cryptid]] that is supposedly an unclassified species of [[primate]] similar to the [[orangutan]] that inhabits remote regions of the island of [[Sumatra]]. The Orang Pendak has been estimated to be only two and a half to five feet in height; its name means "little man" or "short person."
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| According to accounts, this species differs from the [[orangutan]] only in that it is fully [[bipedal]] and diminutive. The only evidence to be found so far have been footprints, unidentified primate hairs, and dubious tissue samples. The footprints are different from all other [[bigfoot]]-like tracks in that they are more [[ape]]-like, with splayed and elongated [[finger|digits]], as with typical orangutans. However, the footprints are distinctly different from those of orangutans. Unlike the case of other cryptid [[hominid]]s, some credible scientists are convinced of the possible existence of this alleged species.
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| As is the case with the [[Yeti]], expeditions to find the Orang Pendek turned up no conclusive evidence, save hairs which do not belong to an [[orangutan]], [[chimpanzee]], [[gorilla]], [[sun bear]], [[monkey]], [[macaque]], [[tapir]], [[gibbon]], [[langur]], or human. Alleged photographs of the creature were either proven to be conclusively fake or of too low a quality to be useful. Alleged eye-witness renderings look remarkably like ''[[Paranthropus]]'', a bipedal primate that was a relative to the precursor to the [[genus]] [[Homo (genus)|''Homo'']].
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| Recently, Henry Gee, editor of the prestigious ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', writes of an unexpected discovery that:<blockquote>"The discovery that ''[[Homo floresiensis]]'' survived until so very recently, in geological terms, makes it more likely that stories of other mythical, human-like creatures such as [[Yeti]]s are founded on grains of truth....Now, [[cryptozoology]], the study of such fabulous creatures, can come in from the cold." [http://www.lorencoleman.com/top_cryptozoology_2004.html]</blockquote>
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Ebu Gogo]]: A similar creature from the [[Flores]] Islands
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| * [[Batutut]]: AKA the Nguoi Rung "Forest people" of Viet Nam & Laos
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| ==External links==
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| * "[http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/182_orang1.shtml In Search of Orang Pendek]" from the ''[[Fortean Times]]'', April, 2004.
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| * [http://www.newanimal.org/orang.htm The Cryptid Zoo: Orang-Pendek]
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| from Wikipedia, May 2006
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| [[Category:Primates and hominids]]
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