21. Belize
Today we find ourselves in the only country in Central America where the official language is English; hardly surprising when you consider that until 1981 Belize was called British Honduras. Aside from this change of name, what else do we know about the country? Well, there are reports of a cryptid: the Sisemite.
The Sisemite is at first just another example of one of those large mystery primates that seem to be found in the depths of unexplored forests. In 1915 author George Gordon would write about the creature that it was said to be taller than a man, with hair so matted that it was capable of stopping a bullet. The creature was also said to be able to reverse its feet and leave a misleading track for any hunter trying to follow it. Certainly many supernatural creatures have feet that face the wrong way but if this creature has its basis in fact could it be that the Sisimite is not a primate at all, nor a hominid; could it be founded on memories of the ground sloth?
Thursday, October 27, 2011
IMPERIAL WOODPECKER (Courtesy of Chad Arment)
Cornell has released online a video that is the only known photographic record of the presumed extinct Imperial woodpecker:
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.aspx?pid=2314
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/Page.aspx?pid=2314
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
On this day in 1948 Paul Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of DDTs insecticide properties. Unbeknownst to him this would have consequences in poisoning creatures further up food chains resulting cancer and the near extinction of many bird species.
And now the news:
Face-To-Face With an Ancient Human
Chequered Skipper – Rare butterfly numbers double ...
Reindeer pant to stay cool in fur coats
Loving the Chambered Nautilus to Death
Urgent need for action to save polar bears
Bay of Plenty oil disaster: Rare birds dying in th...
Bat killer cause confirmed as fungus (via Dawn Hol...
The bald eagle was one of the species nearly wiped out by DDT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hecXupPpE9o
On this day in 1948 Paul Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of DDTs insecticide properties. Unbeknownst to him this would have consequences in poisoning creatures further up food chains resulting cancer and the near extinction of many bird species.
And now the news:
Face-To-Face With an Ancient Human
Chequered Skipper – Rare butterfly numbers double ...
Reindeer pant to stay cool in fur coats
Loving the Chambered Nautilus to Death
Urgent need for action to save polar bears
Bay of Plenty oil disaster: Rare birds dying in th...
Bat killer cause confirmed as fungus (via Dawn Hol...
The bald eagle was one of the species nearly wiped out by DDT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hecXupPpE9o
DALE DRINNON: The Saga of Sundaland continued
Another New News Item on the Frontiers of Anthropology blog, continuing the Saga of Sundaland and the Survivors that went out of it:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2011/10/another-tasty-menu-item-from-lemuria.html