Johor Eyes: “Sex Appeal” or “Garfield’s”?

The matter of Sean Ang’s recent drawing discussed here on Monday is the subject of an article in the New Straits Times for Thursday, August 3, 2006, entitled “Sexual Gaze of Johor’s Bigfoot.”

The paper is reporting on a new twist and extension of visual interpretations of the new drawing of the “eyes.” The New Straits Times is noting that Sean Ang says there is a sexual meaning to the eyes he has drawn alleged based on a photo of an alleged photograph of these alleged Malaysian unknown hominoids.

…claims that the sclera (the white of the eye) surrounding the iris, which is meant for enhancing gaze signal in communication, showed that the creature had some kind of basic language.

“Based on the eyes, I predict that the Johor Hominids could have some kind of basic language that requires them to gaze at other individuals for a prolonged time.”

Ang, a palaeo-anthropologist, said the drooping eyelids of the female hominid could also be a feature to boost its sex appeal.

“The eyes are unusual as they are a bit bulky, like Garfield’s eyes, minus the eyelashes.

I am one of the first to be open to looking deeper into the behavior of unknown hominoids, and have been misunderstood for my challenge to the field to discuss the record of sexual activity among all unknown primates, as is routinely done in scholary treatments of the great apes. The resulting conflicts experienced about this are detailed in my chapter “Sex and the Single Sasquatch” in Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America. But that was a call for action based on hundreds of years of ignored reports, not looking at a drawing and making leaps of logic from there.

Perhaps the media has not been fair to Sean Ang. But why do so much interpreting and then talk to the press about it without pressing on to develop and present the evidence of the actual photos or the actual animals? Is it just me or is this getting a little silly? Now the Malaysian media is printing wild speculations assumed from a drawing? Perhaps Sean Ang has stared too long at his own drawings?

For a complete rundown on all the August 4th breaking news on the “Johor Hominid” hoax discovery, please see:

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