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UNX: CRYPTOZOOLOGY
TOC (Table Of Contents)

     [ WHAT IS CRYPTOZOOLOGY? ]


     [ NOTES ]
     [ HISTORY ]
     [ TIMELINE ]
     [ BIBLIOGRAPHY ]
     [ RELATED WEBPAGES ]
     [ OTHER SUBJECTS ]

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          JERSEY DEVIL

WHAT IS CRYPTOZOOLOGY?

SOURCE:
http://dictionary.reference.com/cite.html?qh=crypto&ia=etymon
http://dictionary.reference.com/cite.html?qh=zoology&ia=etymon

When you break down cryptozoology into its greek roots [kryptos- (hidden, concealed, secret), zoion (animal), and -logia (study)] you get the study of hidden (concealed or secret) animals.

NOTES


JAN-29-2012 [SUN]
More Things

p. 14
"A notion has somehow gained popular credence that the surface of the earth
   is now fully explored and for the most part well known and even mapped.
   There was never a greater mixconception. The percentage of the land
   surface of the earth that is actually inhabited -that is to say, lived
   upon, enclosed, farmed or regularly traversed- is quite limited. Even if
   the territory that is penetrated only for hunting or the gathering of food
   crops by added, vast areas still remain completely unused.

"There are such areas in every continent, areas that for years are never even
   entered by man. Nor are these only the hot deserts of the torrid regions
   or the cold deserts of the poles. I have visited a house in New Jersey
   behind which the woods extend in one direction, unbroken by so much as a
   path, for twenty-one miles.

"In parts of the tropics there are areas of quite staggering immensity which
   no man has as yet been able to penetrate. Whole mountain ranges in
   Australia have never even been seen from the ground; large parts of the
   northern Himalayas are as yet unvisited; regions of New Guinea have never
   been reached, and considerabel portions of the Amazon valley are quite
   unknown. The Addar swamps in Central Africa cover 1800 square miles,
   those of the Bahr el Ghazal several thousands, and parts of them cannot
   be traversed. Just because a map is covered with names does not mean that
   the country is known. Aerial surveys made with modern photgraphic
   techniques only add to this popular misconception, for many of the
   physical features are recorded in some detail then rapidly find their way
   into our atlases. They are givin names and fill up the space, but at the
   same time the country remains absolutely untouched."


p. 17
"These native tales are heard throughout the equatorial rain-forest belt
   from Gambia in the west to the Nile in the east, and south to Angola and
   Rhodesia. Carl Hagenbeck's collectors picked them up in Liberia, and the
   leader of a German expeditio to the Cameroons in 1913 made a very
   interesting report which has never been published in full, but which has
   been quoted by several others. In widely separated areas, he collected
   descriptions of an alleged beast named the 'Mokele-mbembe' from
   experienced native guides who could not possible have known each other.
   His description states:

"'the animal is said to be of a brownish-gray color with a smooth skin, its
   size approximating that of an elephant; at least that of a hippopotamus.
   It is said to have a long and very flexible neck and only one tooth but a
   very long one; some say it is a horn. A few spoke about a long muscular
   tail like that of an alligator. Canoes coming near it are said to be
   doomed; the animal is said to attack the vessels at once and to kill the
   crews, but without eating the bodies. The creature is said to live in the
   caves that have washed out by the river in the clay of its shores at sharp
   bends. It is said to climb the shore even at daytime in search of food;
   its diet is said to be entirely vegetgable. This feature disagrees with a
   poxxible explanation as a myth. The preferred plant was shown to me; it is
   a knd of liana with large white blossoms, with a milky sap and applelike
   fruits. At the Ssombo River I was shown a path said to have been made by
   this animal in order to get at its food. The path was fresh and there were
   plants of the described type near by. But since there were too many tracks
   of elephants, hippos, and other large mammals, it was impossible to make
   out a particular spoor with any amount of certainty.'"

HISTORY

Bernard Heuvelmans was the first to coin the term cryptozoology after the success of his first book On the Track of Unknown Animals (Sur la Piste des Betes Ignorees) was published in 1955, but Lucien Blancou was the first to use it in print when he dedicated a new booklet (Géographie Cynégétique du Monde) to Heuvelmans as a "master of cryptozoology".

TIMELINE


1821: XXX-99 [XXX] > UNX > CRYPTOZOOLOGY > Cuvier's "Rash Dictum"
1909: JAN-17 [SUN] > UNX > JERSEY DEVIL > Sighting > Bristol, PA  USA
1948: JAN-03 [SAT] > UNX > SCI > DINOSAUR > "There Might Be Dinosaurs" > "Saturday Evening Post"  USA
1976: JAN-01 [THU] > UNX > CRYPTOZOOLOGY > BIG BIRD > Rio Grande Valley, TX  USA
1976: JAN-02 [FRI] > UNX > CRYPTOZOOLOGY > BIG BIRD > Rio Grande Valley, TX  USA
1976: JAN-07 [WED] > UNX > CRYPTOZOOLOGY > BIG BIRD > Brownsville, TX  USA
1976: JAN-14 [WED] > UNX > CRYPTOZOOLOGY > BIGFOOT > Bellingham, WA  USA

1821: XXX-99 [XXX]

LOCATION:

SOURCE:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Georges_Cuvier

Cuvier's "Rash Dictum"

Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier (August 23, 1769 - May 13, 1832), a French naturalist and zoologist, was an important figure in scientific circles during the nineteenth century.