Cryptozoology A To Z – Loren Coleman

In 1937, the director of the Paris Vincennes Zoo, Professor Achille Urbain, journeyed to North Cambodia and learned of a large wild ox, unlike the gaur and the banteng. Native people called it the kouprey. Other naturalists, however, were certain that he was wrong, and they suggested that the kouprey might be no more than a hybrid of the gaur and the banteng. Finally, in 1961, a detailed anatomical study of the kouprey ( Bos sauveli ) proved it to be so different from the area’s other wild oxen that it was declared a new animal, upholding Urbain’s 1937 conclusion.

Harvard mammalogist Harold J. Coolidge proposed that the kouprey be placed in a new genus, Novibos. Southeast Asia’s wars killed off many koupreys, and some regional zoologists fear that not more than three hundred now exist in the wild. Between 1953 and 1980 koupreys were thought extinct in Thailand until a small group was rediscovered in the Dongrak mountains.

A 1975 New York Zoological Society expedition failed to capture any, though members did observe a herd of fifty. In November 1988, Hanoi University zoologist Vo Quy led a well-funded capture team to begin a captive breeding population, but specimens eluded him and his party. Koupreys remain one of Asia’s most elusive larger mammals. The Bishop of Bergen, Erik Pontoppidan, writing in The Natural History of Norway (1723), told of the largest “Sea-Monster in the world,” the many- armed Kraken.

The giant squid—once known as the Kraken—was considered an absurd fiction until indisputable physical evidence of its existence became available in the 1870s. Before then, however, respectable opinion thought Kraken as fabulous a creature as the Merbeings, and those who claimed to have seen it could count on being ridiculed if they took their sightings to scientists. Scientific investigation of the animal did not begin until the 1840s, when Danish zoologist Johan Japetus Steenstrup took up the subject, looking for reports in printed sources.

In an indifferently received 1847 lecture to the Society of Scandinavian Naturalists, he took note of beach strandings of giant squids going back to 1639, when one was found on an Icelandic beach.

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—DR. BERNARD HEUVELMANS, 1988 OceanofPDF.com Cryptozoology Timeline Milestones 1812 Cuvier’s “Rash Dictum” 1817–1819 “New England Sea-Serpent” sightings peaked 1860 Philip Henry Gosse’s The Romance of Natural History 1892 A.C. Oudemans’s The Great Sea Serpent 1896 “Giant Octopus” of St. Augustine, Florida 1913 First Mokele-mbembe expedition 1913–1914 “Nandi Bear” sightings peaked 1920s “Sasquatch” coined 1921 “Abominable Snowman” coined 1922 “Patagonian plesiosaur” expedition/“Mngwa” sightings peaked 1930 Rupert T.

Gould’s The Case for the Sea-Serpent 1933 “Loch Ness Monster” sightings begin 1934 Rupert T. Gould’s The Loch Ness Monster and Others 1937 Gandar Dower’s The Spotted Lion 1941 Willy Ley’s The Lungfish and the Unicorn 1946 Charles Barrett’s The Bunyip 1948 Ivan T.

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