6 thoughts on “Orang Pendek, Bigfoot's cousin? ~ Early first account by Dutch explorer ~ Monsters & Mayhem # 10”
My ex girlfriend was a home care nurse and she used to care for an older ritch man who lived in Sumatra for years. He told her that he used to take a morning jog daily on a dirt road by the village that he lived in. He said one day he came across an orange chimp sitting on low tree branch,and he didnt understand why it was sitting like a man. He said it jumped down and ran away like a man does. He said he never heard of orang pendek until a villager told him about it after he told him what he saw.
Always an interesting cousin too by the descriptions given. Also interesting that they share the same types of behaviors as their cousins on the other continents around the world!
9:23 It is pronounced “Pith-ee-can-thro-pus erectus”. It is known from bones first found in Java (hence called Java man) in 1891-92 by Dutch geologist and anatomist Eugène Dubois (pronounced “Ewegene Dewbua”), and other bones found later. Dubois classified his findings as Pithecanthropus erectus, which also means ape-man who walks upright. The species was renamed Homo erectus around 1960. 🙂 Btw, some people mistakenly believe Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yowie/etc is Homo erectus. This is totally incorrect. Homo erectus was not covered in hair and, being our direct ancestor, looked very like us. It might in fact be a direct descendant of the extinct Gigantopithecus, whose closest modern relative is the orangutan (notable for its long hair), or even a completely new species of hominid unknown to science.
I can't remember if it was a Monster Quest episode or a Destination truth episode ,where a field biologist makes the claim that she actually saw one about 10 years ago .
My ex girlfriend was a home care nurse and she used to care for an older ritch man who lived in Sumatra for years. He told her that he used to take a morning jog daily on a dirt road by the village that he lived in. He said one day he came across an orange chimp sitting on low tree branch,and he didnt understand why it was sitting like a man. He said it jumped down and ran away like a man does. He said he never heard of orang pendek until a villager told him about it after he told him what he saw.
I always figured most legitimate sightings of orang pendicks and squatches were just wild humans.
Always an interesting cousin too by the descriptions given. Also interesting that they share the same types of behaviors as their cousins on the other continents around the world!
9:23 It is pronounced “Pith-ee-can-thro-pus erectus”. It is known from bones first found in Java (hence called Java man) in 1891-92 by Dutch geologist and anatomist Eugène Dubois (pronounced “Ewegene Dewbua”), and other bones found later. Dubois classified his findings as Pithecanthropus erectus, which also means ape-man who walks upright. The species was renamed Homo erectus around 1960. 🙂
Btw, some people mistakenly believe Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yowie/etc is Homo erectus. This is totally incorrect. Homo erectus was not covered in hair and, being our direct ancestor, looked very like us. It might in fact be a direct descendant of the extinct Gigantopithecus, whose closest modern relative is the orangutan (notable for its long hair), or even a completely new species of hominid unknown to science.
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I can't remember if it was a Monster Quest episode or a Destination truth episode ,where a field biologist
makes the claim that she actually saw one about 10 years ago .