An expedition to Sumatra has reported that analysis of hair believed to come from an unknown primate, known locally as the orang-pendek, has shown the sample comes from no known primate. This is not a formal publication in a scientific paper, but it's intriguing because the gibbon-sized ape (the name means "short man") represents one of the more intriguing and better documented cases of alleged unknown primates. No less an authority than Dr. John MacKinnon of the World Wildlife Fund has reported seeing what he believed were orang-pendek tracks. Conservationist Debbie Martyr, who has been working in Sumatra for years to save endangered tigers, orangs, and other species, is a solid believer and thinks she has spotted the elusive ape herself. Of all the primates around the world that draw the attention of cryptozoologists, the orang-pendek is the one I'd bet on to be a genuine unclassified species.
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