We have taken hair samples found at the site, and bagged some rattan which it was eating. We will have these analysed by Todd Disotell.

Sooo. Todd, how’s that analysis coming along?

“It’s hard to believe that anyone would pass up the once in a lifetime photo opportunity of a major cryptid to try to get a better vantage point. ”

Well, I can actually believe it.

Given the barrier that so many need to get over of their own skepticism (“Oh, I won’t see one…”), the shock factor alone militates against a good shot. Maybe against remembering you have a camera. (How many of those have I read.) I honestly think I would focus on seeing it first. Maybe I’m self-centered (check that. I know I am). But I would have my proof at that point, and for those few moments The Quest to Document could go hang. I’d want to cement it in my own mind before thinking about the world’s. After all, I *am* having a once in a lifetime opportunity, right then and there. And I don’t want to blow it.

I remember once setting my camera up for a spectacular sunset. Tripod; cable release; lens; put it together; bracket bracket bracket; unscrew everything; put it away; pick up the pack; start walking….wait a minute! I HADN’T SEEN THE SUNSET. Photographing a sunset and seeing one, I can attest from personal experience, are totally unrelated activities. I’d imagine this is the case here, too.

None of us would ever know unless we were right where he was, I don’t think.

An update on the expedition is found here.

Cliff…. “He had a chance to get a once in a lifetime photograph of an Orang Pendek, but decided that just any photo wouldn’t do, it had to be a perfect photo?? Sheeesh, come on now. Wouldn’t an investigator, on an expedition for cryptids, given the rare opportunity to see OP snap whatever photos he could just to make sure he got at least one, then maybe after securing at least one photo then try to get to a better vantage point??”

I thought and thought about this, and believe I finally came up with a solution… Dave Archer’s fulltime job is a Sears Portrait Studio photographer! He would not be happy unless he could get Orang Pendek photos like these….here and here.

In response to queries re cameras and photographic evidence: yes, Dave Archer, one of the two orang pendek eyewitnesses, did have a camera to hand, but sadly lost the opportunity to snap some pictures while attempting to secure a better vantage point.

Seriously? He had a chance to get a once in a lifetime photograph of an Orang Pendek, but decided that just any photo wouldn’t do, it had to be a perfect photo?? Sheeesh, come on now. Wouldn’t an investigator, on an expedition for cryptids, given the rare opportunity to see OP snap whatever photos he could just to make sure he got at least one, then maybe after securing at least one photo then try to get to a better vantage point?? Oh well, chalk up another one to the cryptids.

1- don’t have cameras ready…seriously???
2- don’t have video cams that work in an environment the KNOW is going to be humid….c’mon
3- take PHOTOS, not impressions, of the ‘footprints’
4- say it’s “chimpanzee-like”…if they did see something, there are great apes known to be in the area, prolly was an orangutan

You gotta believe that they’d have at least tried to snap a pic prior to getting ‘a better vantage point’, this is rediculous. Just a few guys trying to get funding for there next expidition/two week vacation from their normal lives. I’m never this skeptical, but this stinks of BS.

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