"could it be the same? the pantot has the same description of the sigbin. it attacks with its behind and releases a very bad smell. it is also nocturnal and feeds on insects.though mythically they say its charcoal. who might know it was eating insects near a charcoaled area. the pantot was featured at the born to be wild last march 2011 on one of its episode by kiko rustia. it lives in the fields and hiding in holes. mythically it runs faster than the speed of light. perhaps they did not see where it went. Filipinos are known to be mythical, they believe in what their ancestors stories."

"i think it is true because up to now, the direct decendants of David Dula y Goiti in the Isla de Batag, Laoang, Northern Samar are known to be sigbinan...try to ask the descendants of Rufina Dulay, particularly the Cui Family..one of them is a sigbinan...it was passed on to them by David Dula y Goiti, the financier and right hand man of Sumuroy....."