"Classically" the Mapinguari per seis more of an upright primate with NO groundslothlike features: it is never described as having any TAIL and the "Claws" are more precisely described as being like the curled fingers of an ape's hand. Both fingers and toes are curled: the tracks are left by the edge of the foot with the toes curled and the foot is not extended on the ground. Ivan sSAnderson should have remembered this when he wrote the book Abominable Snowmen and called the Mapinguari a sort of a Bigfoot. Ironically, Sanderson is one of the better-known supporters of the Mapinguari, but conflating it with the South American Bigfoot was probably a mistake (the creature that was said to pull the tongues out of cattle was NOT called Mapinguari, and neither is the usually-quadrupedal, TAILED shaggy creature more likely to be a groundsloth. People have been careless in discussing the matter generally) The one-eyed-creature-with-no-head-and-its-mouth-in-its-belly CAN be documented all the way back into the 1500s and is most likely a kind of an ape like an orangutan
"Classically" the Mapinguari per seis more of an upright primate with NO groundslothlike features: it is never described as having any TAIL and the "Claws" are more precisely described as being like the curled fingers of an ape's hand. Both fingers and toes are curled: the tracks are left by the edge of the foot with the toes curled and the foot is not extended on the ground. Ivan sSAnderson should have remembered this when he wrote the book Abominable Snowmen and called the Mapinguari a sort of a Bigfoot. Ironically, Sanderson is one of the better-known supporters of the Mapinguari, but conflating it with the South American Bigfoot was probably a mistake (the creature that was said to pull the tongues out of cattle was NOT called Mapinguari, and neither is the usually-quadrupedal, TAILED shaggy creature more likely to be a groundsloth. People have been careless in discussing the matter generally)
ReplyDeleteThe one-eyed-creature-with-no-head-and-its-mouth-in-its-belly CAN be documented all the way back into the 1500s and is most likely a kind of an ape like an orangutan