Xing-Xing
Sightings of man-sized or smaller anthropoid apes recorded from southern China are often lumped with the body of traditions linked to the Yeren or Wildman. However, a distinctive animal, called by the locals the xing-xing, may be an undiscovered orangutan. In Bernard Heuvelmans’s view, these possibly are mainland orangutans that have survived from the Pleistocene era . They are, he says, similar in appearance to other unknown orang-like animals from Vietnam (kra-dhon), Burma (illwun), and Assam (olo-banda, bir-sindic),
SOURCE:
The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters,Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature
Written by Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark – Copyright 1999 Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark
