Summary: <p>This week we’re back to Sumatra, that island of mystery, to learn about a mysterious ape called the orang pendek.</p> <p>A beautiful Sumatran orangutan:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-720" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/orang-beautiful-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200"></p> <p>This orangutan and her baby have won all the bananas:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-721" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/orang-winner-300x169.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="169"></p> <p>This picture made me DIE:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-722" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/orangs-walking-hand-in-hand-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p>An especially dapper siamang, a type of gibbon:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-723" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/siamang-so-dapper-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p>Here’s a walking siamang:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-724" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/siamang-walking-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300"></p> <p>The sun bear, looking snoozy:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-725" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sun_bear5-300x238.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="238"></p> <p>The sun bear, standing:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-726" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/sunbear.jpg" alt="" width="237" height="212"></p> <p><strong>Further reading:</strong></p> <p>These are the articles where I got my quotes.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2011/sep/08/orang-pendek-sumatra-mystery-ape">This one has some general information</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090213074536/http://www.rfthomas.clara.net/papers/otherorang.html">This one is by Debbie Martyr herself</a>.</p> <p><strong>Show transcript:</strong></p> <p>Welcome to Strange Animals Podcast. I’m your host, Kate Shaw.</p> <p>The island of Sumatra is a place that keeps popping up in our episodes. We’ve barely scratched the surface of weirdne</p>
