Adam Davies, cryptozoologist and author of Extreme Expedition: Travel Adventures Stalking the World’s Mystery Animals, is doing it again. He is off to the bush. In search of Orang Pendek. He probably is getting on a plane as you read this.

He writes:

“We leave Friday, September 9, 2011 and will return on the 25th of September, late night. I will be leading the expedition, which is entitled The CFZ Sumatra Expedition 2011. There will be two teams to maximise our chances of finding evidence of the creature.”

Expedition members are heading to the Indonesian island of Sumatra this week on the trail of one of the most elusive and fascinating creatures in hominology, anthropology, zoology, and cryptozoology: Orang Pendek, the walking ape.

For more than a century, there have been convincing reports of the creature’s existence. Yet no-one has ever managed to find categorical proof that the island is home to a species of ape that walks freely on its back legs.

Adam Davies’ recent journal article on Orang Pendek outlined the growing body of evidence for this new ape.

Explorer Adam Davies is leading this expedition to see if more evidence of these potentially new apes can be found. (Media and blogs are reporting that the quest’s leader is Richard Freeman; such accounts are incorrect. This appears to be based on the fact that Freeman gave an interview about the search to The Guardian.)

As Davies has written, there seems to be a genuine scientific basis for the consideration that an unknown anthropoid that walks bipedally might exist in Indonesia.