Clashing views on the best way to recognise species within the Fifties. The case of the Treefrogs

[*] 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…

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…