AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIGFOOT HUNTING

A while back, I discussed the differing perspectives of researchers and witnesses toward the bigfoot phenomenon [...] In a nutshell, one reason researchers and witnesses (long-term ones especially) approach this subject differently is because of differing levels of personal experience.

To researchers, many of whom have little to no face-to-face personal experience with Sasquatch, the subject of bigfoot is primarily an intellectual pursuit, devoid of emotion. To witnesses, particularly long-term witnesses but also incidental witnesses who can be deeply affected by a single sighting, their involvement in this subject tends to be much more emotionally-oriented. Researchers may say that those who are emotionally involved in this subject cannot be “objective”.

Read on...

MORAG OF LOCH MORAR

Following on from our tales of the Loch Oich Monster. The witness who told me that story also mentioned an experience a friend had in the late 80s or early 90s at Loch Morar:

"Another pair of friends were seakayaking in Loch Morar, heading to Tarbert to portage through and paddle back down Loch Nevis and camped the night on an island in Loch Morar. During the night one got up for a pee and as he was standing in the dark a huge commotion in the water nearby went on for several minutes, then stopped.

Suddenly a large wave of displaced water rushed up the shingle beach evidence of a large object having moved about vigorously. Nothing to see and no signs of anything in the morning, and no boat engines or evidence of other craft."





http://lochnessmystery.blogspot.com/2012/03/some-tales-of-mhorag-of-loch-morar.html

HAUNTED SKIES: Daily Telegraph 16.2.66.

http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/03/daily-telegraph-16266.html

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today

http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/

On this day in 2000 over 800 members of the Ugandan doomsday cult ‘The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God’ were murdered by their cult leaders in a ‘mass suicide’. According to forensic reports it would appear that most of the victims were unwilling participants and were likely killed after the organization began to unravel after faith was lost in its leaders following several incorrect predictions of the date of the apocalypse came and went without incident.

And now the news:

Critically Endangered Kitten Born To A Domestic Ca...
€56,413 to be spent on natterjack toad project
Earliest Pregnant Reptile Pushes Back Fossil Recor...
Butterfly conservation project success
Ohio Exotic Animals Ban To Fix 'Entirely Unaccepta...
Another of the world's rarest dolphins killed by a...
A Growing Illicit Trade Threatens Jamaica's Wildli...
Forget the zebra, watch out for the toad crossing
'No fishing zones' call as Bill hits Assembly Rea...
Some mammals used complex teeth to compete with di...
Veterans tame wolf-dogs at Calif. rescue center
'Red Deer Cave people' may be new species of human...
Oceans Will Not Survive ‘Business as Usual’

A report on the mass murders (disturbing images warning):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHBevSzrczE

DALE DRINNON: Red Deer People from China/Cryptids from Chile

New on Frontiers of Anthropology
A short review of the "Red Deer Cave People" from China:
http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.com/2012/03/red-deer-people-of-sundaland.html

New on Frontiers of Zoology,
Two articles on Cryptids from Chile:
http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/mythical-monster-seals-of-chile.html

http://frontiersofzoology.blogspot.com/2012/03/abominable-snowman-of-chilean-andes.html

THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - With Snakeheads!

We received this email this morning from those jolly nice people at Wildwoods. And there are species here I have never seen before...

FISH HOUSE NEWS - It’s Snakehead Time!

Our latest Indian shipment is now out of quarantine and we can now offer many rare and sought after species and colour variants of snakehead. Add these to our other Asian and African species and you will find the greatest collection of snakehead species ever offered for sale in the UK (if not Europe!)Only found from India, we have for only the 2nd time ever, Channa diplogramma
This rarely traded snakehead is very similar in appearance to the giant or red snakehead and will also grow to a large size. We currently have a group of five living happily together.

A full listing of all Wildwoods snakeheads can be found in our TF2YD webshop
After a three year wait, we have managed to import a small quantity of L260 Queen Arabesque plecs - looking fantastic at the moment! Also from Brazil we have a fabulous group of Geophagus altifrons and some stunning large Sunshine plecs - L14 Scobinancistrus aureatus

Also worth a mention is a cracking Merodontotus tigrinus of around 25cm - hand feeding too!

Looking Especially Good This Week
Corydoras robinae
Melanochromis lepidiadaptes
Hyphessobrycon simulans
Pseudomugil furcatus
Hypsibarbus wetmori
Tetraodon suvatti
Girardinus metallicus
Danio meghalayensis
Megalamphodus megalopterus
Geophagus steindachneri
Pelvicachromis rubrolabiatus
Pygopristis denticulatus

And why did Jon choose that headline?

CARL PORTMAN: Dead fox in a graveyard

Liebe Jon,

Whilst out walking the hounds yesterday I happened across this unfortunate fox lying dead in the local graveyard (appropriate?). I had my camera with me as usual and took the three photographs above. I am sending them to you with the following comments and observations.

* The full length photograph merely depicts the size, colour and position of the animal.
* Then I noticed the injury on the hind leg, which I took a close-up of. What caused this? Surely it is not a shotgun would? Maybe another fox? A dog? Something bigger? I am no expert but could such an injury alone have killed the animal? I did not tip it over to look for other injuries but there seemed to be none. Maybe it died of a heart attack through fright.
* A bigger animal (if it killed it for a meal) would have surely eaten some of it.

The other one of the close-up of the teeth was taken for record purposes – but why? I was fascinated and not a little astonished to see what good condition the teeth were in; hardly yellowed at all. Now, my domestic quadrupeds have yellower teeth than that and we occasionally clean them with doggy toothpaste. I wonder how the foxes keep theirs so clean? Anyway – it is just an observation.

I feel for the poor animal – I do love foxes despite all the hullabaloo about the destruction they are meant to cause. They were here first…

Love from the Topographic Oceans.


Website: www.carlsplanet.co.uk

P.S. Actually, I just noticed a huge puncture mark on the fox – just above its left foreleg – and another towards the middle of its body. No blood, though – can’t be a shotgun.