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UFITI - THE 'GHOST' CHIMPANZEE OF NKATA BAY
Ufiti in captivity (Loren Coleman)Welcome to my 300th ShukerNature blog post!One of the most controversial (and also, at least online, one of the most erroneously reported) of the 20th Century's...
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WELCOME TO THE DEFINITIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CRYPTOZOOLOGY BOOKS - EVERY CZ BOOK...
I LIKE books - part of my collection of cryptozoology books; click photo to enlarge it, and see how many titles you recognise and/or are in your own collection (Dr Karl Shuker)It has recently occurred...
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'APE-MAN' OLIVER - THE CHIMP THAT MADE A CHUMP OUT OF SCIENCE
Frequently-reproduced media photo of Oliver from the mid-1970s (Associated Press)Welcome to the latest in my occasional series of ShukerNature articles regarding controversial forms of chimpanzee from...
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FROM BLACK LIONS TO LIVING SABRE-TOOTHS - MY TOP TEN MYSTERY CATS
Photoshopped photograph of a black lion ((PAulie-SVK/deviantART.com)As I have revealed in my very first book, Mystery Cats of the World (1989), and also in my very latest book, Cats of Magic,...
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THE BILI (BONDO) APES – UNMASKING THE CONGO'S GIANT CHIMPANZEES
This photograph of a shot Bili ape appeared in Vol. 1 of Adolf Friedrich Herzog von Mecklenburg’s tome Vom Kongo zum Niger und Nil: Berichte der Deutschen Zentralafrika-Expedition 1910/1911, which was...
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THE AZIWUGUM - AN INUIT DOG WITH SCALES, FROM 'THE BOOK THAT GOT AWAY'
The aziwugum (Stephen Player)Back in July 2012, ShukerNature exclusively presented some excerpts from The Great Mystery Atlas - which is the only contracted, in-production book that I have ever been...
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THE BLACK PUMA THAT NEVER WAS - A CASE OF MELANISTIC MISIDENTIFICATION
Holding a model of a black (melanistic) leopard, aka a black panther (Dr Karl Shuker)At the beginning of February 2013, I came upon a very remarkable online photograph of a captive cat. According to...
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FAWCETT'S DOUBLE-NOSED ANDEAN TIGER HOUND - A CANINE ANOMALY NOT TO BE...
Exploration Fawcett (1953), compiled from the field notes of the famous lost South American explorer Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Fawcett by his son Brian, includes tantalising snippets concerning a...
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TRAILING THE MITLA – A DOG-LIKE CAT, OR A CAT-LIKE DOG?
Flash card illustration of the mitla prepared by Jeremy Mallinson for showing locals during his search for this mysterious mammal in Bolivia (© Jeremy Mallinson)Certain of South America's alleged...
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THE TAILED SLOW LORISES OF ASSAM'S LUSHAI HILLS - AN ENDURING PRIMATOLOGICAL...
Only known photograph of tailed lorises from Assam's Lushai Hills (PZSL/public domain)Whereas some cryptids attract and retain widespread interest and attention, others are forgotten almost as soon as...
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THE LOST PHOENIX OF LITTLE TOBAGO
A pair of greater birds of paradise, painted by John GouldOne of the most showy and flamboyant species of bird of paradise is the greater bird of paradise Paradisaea apoda. It also features in a very...
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THE SPINY-BACKED CHIMPANZEE – A CONGOLESE CHUPACABRA CHIMP!
Reconstruction of the spiny-backed chimpanzee (Tim Morris)In an ongoing occasional series, previous ShukerNature posts have documented a number of once- and still-controversial forms of chimpanzee –...
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TARZAN'S SON AND THE NANDI BEAR
The issue of Gold Key's 'Korak Son of Tarzan' comic featuring his confrontation with the Nandi bear (Gold Key)In a previous ShukerNature post (click here), I stated that as far as I was aware, the only...
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ONLY IN CALIFORNIA - A SNAKE-HEADED DOG ??
Reconstruction of the mystery beast sighted by Sheila Charles in May 1996 (Tim Morris)Time to re-open the file on another overtly bemusing mystery beast, methinks.Some of the most intriguing cryptids...
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IN MEMORIAM – MY EULOGY TO MY DEAR MOTHER, MARY DOREEN SHUKER, 29 JANUARY...
Mom and I at the Royal Palaces, Bangkok, Thailand, 2005 – our Far East holiday was her all-time favourite, visiting all of the wonderfully exotic lands of the Orient that she had wanted so much to see...
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SEEKING SECRETARY BIRDS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA?
The secretary bird (Yoky-Wikipedia)My late mother, Mary Doreen Shuker, was a short-hand typist and secretary throughout her working life, and I fondly recall how I used to joke affectionately with her...
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SONNERAT'S NON-EXISTENT PENGUINS (AND KOOKABURRA) OF NEW GUINEA
Sonnerat's 'manchot of New Guinea' - in reality, the king penguinAfter I'd added a link on various Facebook group pages to my recent ShukerNature post concerning an extraordinary claim by French...
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COBWEB PANTHERS - A SILVERED SURPRISE
The cobweb panther formerly exhibited at Glasgow Zoo (Graham Law)Black panthers, i.e. melanistic leopards, are exotic-looking felids at the best of times, but the individual constituting the principal...
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THE NEW GUINEA THYLACINE - CRYING WOLF IN IRIAN JAYA?
Captive thylacineThe official extinction in 1936 on Tasmania of the remarkable thylacine (aka Tasmanian tiger and Tasmanian wolf - Tassie for short) Thylacinus cynocephalus, that tiger-striped canine...
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MY BOOK 'DINOSAURS AND OTHER PREHISTORIC ANIMALS ON STAMPS' WINS AN AWARD!
Today I received a most unexpected but very welcome, pleasant surprise. At the 13th New Zealand National Philatelic Literature Exhibition, held on 16 March 2013 at the Manawatu Philatelic Society in...
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