It wasn't treated kindly when it came out. I imagine it is now simply overlooked. The editors posted a very interesting preface to it, basically saying to effect that it was scientific in principle and that to challenge mainstream opinion was also a pillar of science etc.Neil Frost wrote: Dated 2006, I wonder how it has stood up against the reviews?
I have no idea if they are real biological creatures. Though if they are, I'm biased to this because one time I observed in the bush, what was basically an overgrown Orang-utan (with some "human like" features).Neil Frost wrote:Also, a colleague from school found a body when he was eighteen, driving along a dirt road outside of Tamworth while truanting. He said that the roadkill caught his attention because the body hair was an orange colour. After reversing back and examining the animal, his first impression was that it was an orangutan.
Neil
You might also find this a good read by a well respected and pioneering Orang-utan researcher. It seems there are giant terestrial dwelling male Orang's who wander the forests and have been known to be a little "hard to get on with". Feared greatly by all apparently. IMO easy to see that something similar could result in some of the "less friendly" encounters that people have in the Aussie bush.
http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology ... rangutans/I was nearly home when I saw a terrifying spectacle. For a moment I thought it was a trick of my vision. A huge, black orang-utan was walking along the path towards me. I had never seen such a large animal even in a zoo. He must have weighed every bit of three hundred pounds. Hoping that he had not noticed me, I dived behind a large tree. I was in no state to defend myself, or run from him should he come for me, and I could recall clearly the natives’ terrible stories about old, ground-living orangs. I held my breath as the monster passed within a few feet of me and let him get about forty yards ahead before I followed in pursuit. He was enormous, as black as a gorilla but with his back almost bare of hair; Ivan the Terrible was the only name I could think of. (MacKinnon 1974, p. 54)
