CRYPTOLINK: Interesting case from Java

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Yogyakarta village shocked by Chupacabra-like attack

Jakarta Post

Shock and confusion has gripped a village in the southern part of Yogyakarta following the mysterious deaths of livestock in the past few weeks.

The most interesting thing about this story is not the attacks, although they are interesting in themselves. It is this: "Head of Gunung Kidul's Agriculture Agency Bambang Wisnu Broto suspected that the predators were tigers or wolves, which have seen their prey numbers dwindle following a prolonged drought in the region".

The interesting thing about this is that there are no wolves in Indonesia, although this may be a mistranlation or a local name for the Sumatran dhole. However Javan tigers have been generally considered to be extinct with the last known specimen shot in 1984, and the last positively identified pugmarks a few years later.

Search for the Javan tiger - Telegraph

www.telegraph.co.uk › News › Earth › Wildlife

22 Dec 2011 - The discovery of paw prints and cat droppings in an Indonesian parkland has triggered a search for the Javan tiger, declared extinct in 1994.

Why did the Javan tiger disappear? | Awely Tigers

www.awely-tigers.org/why-did-the-javan-tiger-disappear/

17 Jul 2015 - The Javan tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica) is a subspecies of tiger that lived uniquely on the island of Java, in Indonesia. It became extinct at the ...

The Last of the Sunda Tigers - Rainforest Trust

https://www.rainforesttrust.org/news/last-sunda-tigers/

10 Apr 2015 - The Javan tiger (Panthera tigris sundaica), which is more similar to the Sumatran, held on longer into the 20th century. Between 1900 and 1975 ...

MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: Snakes with three heads

It is well known that snakes can turn up with two heads, what is much less well known (including by myself until yesterday) is that very very occasionally snakes with three heads are born!

I typed in the phrase "snakes with three heads " in the Geneaologybank.com database on September 10th and six examples turned up using that phrase. I reproduce some of them below. The first example is from the Jeffersonian (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania) of July 7th 1853, the one below that is from the Mirror and Farmer (Manchester, New Hampshire) of Jan 23rd 1858. Robert Twomley, an American herpetologist who also happens to be a Facebook Friend, passed on the following information to me:"The Aberrancy of two heads within snakes is scientifically referred to as axial bifurcation, dicephalism and somatodichotmy. Axial bifurcation is not unfamiliar within herpetofauna. The first known example of axial bifurcation within Reptilia is of a 120 million-year-old Choristoderm (semi-aquatic diapsid) fossil found within the Yixian formation of Northern China. With the earliest known example in historical times been"

"The Aberrancy of two heads within snakes is scientifically referred to as axial bifurcation,  dicephalism and somatodichotmy. Axial bifurcation is not unfamiliar within herpetofauna. The first known example of axial bifurcation within Reptilia is of a 120 million-year-old Choristoderm (semi-aquatic diapsid) fossil found within the Yixian formation of Northern China. With the earliest reliable reports in historical writing, history was documented by Aristotle in BC 350 and Aelianus in BC 250."

Eleven possible cause has been proposed for the condition of axial bifurcation. 

1. Incomplete division of a simple embryo 

2. Partial fusion of two embryos.  

3. Abnormally low or high temperatures during incubation or gestation. 

4. May occur due to regeneration after an embryonic lesion 

5. Anoxia (low oxygen supply) during embryonic development 

6. Toxic effects of metabolic secretions during a prolonged sojourn in the oviduct 

7. Inbreeding depression from a small gene pool 

8. Hybridization 

9. Environmental pollution 

10 Chemical toxins in captivity (1)

1. E-mail from Robert Twomley and Facebook message, September 3rd 2017. 

NEWS FROM NOWHERE - Wednesday

ON THIS DAY IN - 1759 - The French were defeated by the British on the Plains of Abraham in the final French and Indian War. 
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THYLACINES IN THE NEWS

A brief history of Thylacine sightings

Tasmania Examiner

EXTINCT: QVMAG natural sciences curator David Maynard believes that museums are the only place anyone will see a Thylacine ever again. Picture: 

The Tasmanian tiger would have little chance at survival as extinction risk grows

The Mercury

Grainy video footage of what is purported to be a thylacine ducking into the bush near Maydena was released with the claims and caused a ruckus ...

	Tasmanian tiger 'sighting': Rival thylacine group sceptical of latest vision ABC Online Neil Waters, founder of the Thylacine Awareness Group, said he did not doubt the conviction of the Booth Richardson Tiger Team, but was not ... Huge interest in thylacine story with interview requests from across the country - The Mercury Three thylacine trackers claim to have filmed Tasmanian tigers in local bushland - Herald Sun Is the Tasmanian Tiger still alive? - Shepparton News Full Coverage
	The Thylacine, A Misunderstood Species Hunted Into Extinction Forbes On this day in 1936, the last Tasmanian tiger or thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) died at the Hobart Zoo (Tasmania). Modern legends attributed ...
	Thylacine team want protected zone set up to prevent hunters in area The Mercury The team, which released footage this week of what they believe is a thylacine, has urged the Tasmanian Government to help with monitoring and ... Why do some of us believe in Tasmania tiger, Big Foot sightings and others do not? - ABC Local Has this Aussie Trio Finally Found the Tasmanian Tiger? - National Geographic Australia Full Coverage

BIGFOOT NEWS IN BRIEF

Bigfoot Raids Cornfield

Bigfoot Evidence - blogger

And yes, Bigfoot eat corn like it's going out of style! About two decades ago I was running a farm outside of Yale, and it finally became apparent that ...

Bigfoot in the Carolinas? Chupacabra? 'People see what they want to see'

Beyond Reality News

Or at least that's what a North Carolina wildlife biologist and two North Carolina university professors had to say of recent reports of Bigfoot and ...

FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES

What has Corinna's column of Fortean bird news got to do with cryptozoology? 

Well, everything, actually! 

In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out-of-place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in.

• Next generation of wild cranes fledge on Somerset ...
• ON A WING AND A PRAYER
• Britain's native bird populations are suffering - ...
• Mull sea eagle thought lost is found in Sutherland...
• New dinosaur discovery suggests new species rooste...
• Scientists expose true extent of cuckoo's cunning
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Another one of the extended CFZ family is gone forever. Within minutes of us putting the magazine to bed on Friday evening, Bob Morrell from APRA Books telephoned to tell us that Syd Henley died on the  previous Sunday. I was always very fond of him, and there is now a bloody great Syd-shaped hole in the collective life of the CFZ. Goodbye old friend.

By the way, please also forgive me for banging on about this but on a personal level I would be very grateful if you could spread the word about our rebooted monthly webTV series after a break of nearly four years. I actually hadn't realised it had been so long, but - then again - my concepts of time and space are fairly abstract at the best of times.

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Gonzo Weekly #251

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