Tiny Humans update #3: "
Michael sez "There may be new impetus to visit Kerinci Seblat National Park in Indonesia. The Orang Pendek may be a living fossil - the same species as Homo Floresiensis, but be very much alive. There are still sightings of such "little people" even today, and none other than Fauna & Flora International, the worldâ€'s oldest conservation charity, is searching for the creature.

They have set up camera-traps in likely areas of forest or in areas where local people have reported sightings. So far the picture that will make world news has proved elusive and as reported sightings get rarer, the naturalists fear that if orange pendek does indeed exist it may be very close to extinction. Link

- Mark Frauenfelder
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(Via Boing Boing.)

As I was saying...

Don't laugh, but perhaps it is time to seriously think about the Prime Directive before the missionaries (damn them) get their hands on them.

And the important questions have yet to be asked about whether they have achieved a human level of intelligence.

Have they created a market economy?

More importantly (a far better indicator, in my humble opinion) have they discovered bacon?