[*] By the center of the twentieth century the museum-based classical zoologists had been being appeared down on. Their conventional pursuit of describing, naming and cataloguing species that had been…
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Half 2 – ESCAPEES AND OTHER EXPLANATIONS
On the alert – an grownup japanese gray kangaroo (© fir0002/Wikipedia – GFDL 1.2 licence) As revealed in Half 1 of this three-part ShukerNature article (click on right here…
Lord Walter Rothschild Sends the Future President of Israel on an Errand
Till I re-read Miriam Rothschild’s biography of her uncle, Lord Walter Rothschild, I had no concept that Israel Aharoni was considered one of Rothschild’s collectors within the discipline. Aharoni is…
Half 3 – FURTHER IDENTITIES, AND FURTHER AFIELD
Creative illustration of a satan monkey – is North America house to an undiscovered species of macropod, or macropod-like thriller beast? (© William M. Rebsamen) For the cryptozoologist, essentially…
toddler feeding and the good private tragedy in her life, the demise of her husband, the zoologist Rolfe
It is a story that for me started within the early Seventies. At a gathering, as I recall of the Society for Endocrinology, I used to be approached by just…
ShukerNature: A BLACKER SHADE OF DARK
Beautiful portray of a pseudo-melanistic tiger, ready particularly for my writings by acclaimed animal artist and longstanding pal Invoice Rebsamen – thanks Invoice! (© William M. Rebsamen) True melanism…
A Discipline Information to the Turtles of Hong Kong by Adam Francis. 2022, ISBN978-988-74587-2-2
A welcome bundle from Hong Kong arrived. It contained the brand new, quick (75-page) e book on the freshwater chelonians of Hong Kong. This quantity, written and self-published by Adam…
ShukerNature: ‘OF BOOKS AND BEASTS’, BY MATT BILLE
Of Books and Beasts: A Cryptozoologist’s Library by Matt Bille (Hangar 1 Publishing: no place of publication or publication date included [November 2021]) (© Matt Bille/Hangar 1 Publishing –…
The Critically Endangered Chinese language Pond or Yellow Terrapin. Hong Kong within the Nineteen Sixties
I famous once I reviewed the brand new guide on the freshwater chelonians of Hong Kong that the Chinese language Pond Terrapin, Mauremys mutica doesn’t seem. Those who have been…
ShukerNature: ‘SECRET SNAKES AND SERPENT SURPRISES’
Entrance cowl of Secret Snakes and Serpent Surprises, depicting the crowing crested cobra as primarily based upon eyewitness descriptions (© Dr Karl Shuker/Coachwhip Publications) My newest thematic cryptozoology guide…