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The Batutut or Ujit or Người rừng, sometimes also known as "forest people", is a proposed hominid cryptid, reputedly similar to the bigfoot, thought to inhabit the Vũ Quang nature reserve and other wilderness areas of Vietnam, Laos and northern Borneo. The Vũ Quang has been the source of a number of newly discovered mammals by Dr. John MacKinnon. Mackinnon claims to have first observed tracks in 1970 that led him to believe that a hominid similar to the ''Meganthropus'' lives there (instead, cryptozoologist Loren Coleman believes that the Batutut are a surviving population of ''Homo erectus'' or Neanderthal.〔 *''The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates'' (NY: Anomalist Books, 2006, ISBN 1-933665-12-2)〕). Mackinnon's 1975 book ''In Search Of The Red Ape'' describes his experiences and findings. A 1947 sighting by a French colonist refers to the animal as a ''L'Homme Sauvage'' (wild man). Vietnamese scholars refer to the animal as the Người Rừng ("forest man"). It is described as being approximately 1.8 m (6 ft) tall and covered with hair except in the knees, the soles of the feet, the hands, and the face. The hair ranges in color from gray to brown to black. The creature walks on two legs and has been reported both solitary and moving in small groups. The creature is most often sighted foraging for food from fruits and leaves to langers and even flying foxes. In Borneo, witnesses describe it as four feet tall and very aggressive, occasionally killing humans and tearing out their livers. ==Sightings during the Vietnam War== In his book ''Very Crazy G.I. - Strange but True Stories of the Vietnam War'', Kregg P. J. Jorgenson relates a sighting of such a creature by a team of US soldiers. The men referred to it as a "Rock Ape" reporting it as being small in stature, about 5 feet tall and having a reddish tinge to its fur. Two Người Rừngs were reportedly captured by tribesmen near Đắk Lắk Province in 1971. In 1974 a North Vietnamese general, Hoang Minh Thao, requested an expedition to find evidence of the creatures, but it was unsuccessful. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Batutut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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