The pygmies use hyenas and turtles as mounts. About 600,000 Pygmies are the aboriginal people of the DR Congo. The fourth comprises the Negroes and Pygmies of Africa. They built permanent villages, and traded with the indigenous Pygmies and Khoi-San populations. Baudolino meets eunuchs, unicorns, Blemmyes, skiapods and pygmies. The longest continuous inhabitants are groups such as the Baka (Pygmies). Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain the short stature of African pygmies. Nonetheless, there is no anthropological evidence linking pygmies to other islands of Vanuatu. There are roughly 500,000 Pygmies left in the rain-forest of Central Africa. Various theories have been proposed to explain the short stature of pygmies. There has been significant intermixing between the Bantu and Pygmies. Both types are also found in the Biaka Pygmies and Bantus from Central Africa. These are the only known "pygmies" of clearly East Asian descent. The aim of the operation, according to witnesses, was to rid the forest of pygmies. Gerana was a queen of the Pygmies who boasted she was more beautiful than Hera.