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The ahool is a cryptid reported from montane rainforests of the Indonesian island of Java, particularly from the region of the Salak Range in West Java.[3] Named after its supposed vocalisations, which may be attributable to various owls,[4] it is usually described as a flying animal compared to a giant bat or a "bird-apeman". However, unlike the largest known bats, the flying foxes (Pteropus spp.), the ahool is described as having a flat, monkey-like face, similarly to the orang-bati, and the name is also applied to a cryptohominid like the orang-pendek;[5] many sightings do not mention wings.[6] Similar cryptids are reported from the Philippines and Vietnam.[7][8]
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Rigg, Jonathan (1862) A Dictionary of the Sunda Language of Java
- ↑ Bartels, Ernst & Sanderson, Ivan T. "The One True Batman," Fate, No. 19 (July 1966)
- ↑ Eberhart, George M. (2002) Mysterious Creatures: A Guide to Cryptozoology, ABC-CLIO, Inc., ISBN 1576072835
- ↑ König, Claus & Weick, Friedhelm & Becking, Jan-Hendrik (2009) Owls of the World
- ↑ Forth, Gregory (2008) Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia: An Anthropological Perspective, Routledge, ISBN 9781135784294
- ↑ "Ahool & Pinatubo". Destination Truth: Series 2, Episode 10 (24 September 2008)
- ↑ Heuvelmans, Bernard "Annotated Checklist of Apparently Unknown Animals With Which Cryptozoology Is Concerned", Cryptozoology, No. 5 (1986)
- ↑ Arment, Chad "Notes on a Minor Set of Correspondence from Bernard Heuvelmans," BioFortean Review (2007) — Online (Wayback Machine)