Mysterie katten en andere vreemde beesten

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Unidentified creature stumps experts

It starts with Bill and Gayle Kurdian throwing out dried corn for the wildlife in their neck of the woods in eastern Randolph County, and an odd-looking creature taking them up on their hospitality early last winter.

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""Everybody thought I was crazy," said Kurdian, the vice president of Matlab in Asheboro.

But Kurdian, an avid outdoorsman, got proof.

He captured the animal on two frames of film on May 20, using a motion-sensing camera that his wife gave him for Christmas.



It's the second time this year that zoo curators have been called on to identify a strange animal sighted in the area.

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Sightings of large predator cats in the Australian bush have been dismissed as phantoms for more than 50 years. Now, for the first time, an investigation by the NSW government has concluded that it is likely there are, indeed, big cats out there.

The Bulletin

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Op donderdag 10 juni 2004 10:49 schreef Rasing het volgende:
Ik heb ooit wel eens een zwarte panter rond zien lopen in Engeland (op tv dan he ), ik denk een ontsnapt exemplaar uit de dierentuin, of een huisdier dat vrijgelaten is toen de eigenaar een beetje schrok dat ie zo groot werd. Kan toch? Open-minded blijven, mensen

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Op donderdag 29 juli 2004 01:27 schreef HarigeKerel het volgende:
Even over die grote katten in Australia, ik heb een topic geopend op een forum met Australische jagers en er zijn toch wel een aantal die zelf ook oa sporen hebben gezien en het niet uitsluiten dat ze er zijn

http://www.boardogs.org.a(...)wtopic&p=20335#20335

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Strange Animal Found in Elmendorf

A rancher in Elmendorf, southeast of San Antonio, found a strange creature attacking his livestock, and local animal experts say identifying it is a tough call.

Devin Macanally says he has lived on his ranch for 15 years and has never seen anything like it.





"It was eating mulberrys under a tree," he said.

It is a strange dog-looking creature with a blue color that he says began a killing spree. Devin first knew something was up when his chickens started disappearing. At one point, 35 were gone in just one day.

Macanally finally shot and killed the creature, and he was blown away at what he saw.

"First thing that came to my mind, is surely everybody's gonna think this is a chupacabra," he laughed. "But it's so odd because it has no hair."

At the nearby Deleon's Grocery and Market, customers come in to check out pictures of it. One woman says it is exactly how her grandmother described the dreaded chupacabra.

People at the San Antonio Zoo say they have not seen anything like it. Terry DeRosa with the zoo says at a feather-light 20 pounds, he thinks it might be a wild mexican dog.

"It may be one of the hairless dogs that perhaps you see in Mexico," he said.

Devin says he would like to know for sure. He says he is hoping someone can help identify it, possibly by DNA.

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Op donderdag 29 juli 2004 02:01 schreef MUUS het volgende:

Ik vind het meer op een hertje lijken.

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Op donderdag 29 juli 2004 02:07 schreef MUUS het volgende:

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Ja, nou, *sputter*, wie zegt dat de chupacabra geen kale herthondachtigs iets is!

Bambi does Cujo. Zoiets.

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Op donderdag 29 juli 2004 02:53 schreef HarigeKerel het volgende:

ze hebben toen specialisten uit Canada naar de UK gevlogen om naar zijn bewijs te kijken en het bleken allemaal foto's van hondenbeten en gewone kattenuitwerpselen te zijn.

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Op vrijdag 30 juli 2004 00:30 schreef HarigeKerel het volgende:

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Dat zijn geen foto's hoor van lynxen en luipaarden

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Zoals ik al zei, ongeacht of die beesten er zitten (en het lijkt van niet, iniedergeval niet op grote schaal) deze organisatie is wellicht niet de beste om dit te onderzoeken.

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Family captures 'big cat' on film

There has been yet another suspected sighting of a so-called "big cat" in a remote area of Wales.
The latest claim of a wild beast roaming farmland is backed up with home video footage shot by a holidaymaker from the Midlands.

It shows what appears to be a black cat-like creature creeping stealthily through undergrowth.

A Welsh Assembly Government investigation concluded that the animal was just a domestic moggy, but big cat experts are keeping an open mind.

Nevertheless, the holidaymaker who captured the pictures on tape is convinced his recording illustrates something other than a domestic cat.

David Bacon and his family, from Wolverhampton, were holidaying in Foel, near Welshpool, when he made the discovery.

"I take a keen interest in wildlife and I'm always peering through binoculars at things when I'm in Wales," he said.

"But on this occasion I spotted something that looked like a big cat.

"My first instinct was that the creature was a panther because it was so black.

"We were just 600 yards away from it and there's no way it was just a large domestic moggy. The cat was walking through some bracken and undergrowth.



"My son suggested it was a puma but it was too black for a puma.

"My other son ran across to us with higher strength binoculars and he thought it was a big cat too."

Mr Bacon added: "I did manage to get a shot of the cat although it was only 10 seconds long," he said.

"We're convinced it was a big cat and definitely not a large tom cat.

BBC

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Op zaterdag 11 september 2004 08:06 schreef Nuoro het volgende:
LOL

Het zal wel aan mij liggen, maar ik zie dus echt geen moer op die foto, laat staan een beest.

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Another Texas Chupacabra?

LUFKIN, Texas -- Local animal experts are having a hard time identifying a strange looking animal killed in Angelina County on Friday -- an animal that looks eerily similar to the as yet unidentified "Elmendorf Beast" killed near San Antonio earlier this year.

"What is that?" are the first words out of anyone's mouth when shown photos of the animal, according to Stacy Womack.



Womack -- who has more than 20 years experience working at Ellen Trout Zoo and for a local veterinarian -- said she's seen and handled a lot of different animals, but that she's never seen anything like this one.

"It's not a dog," she said. "I'd bet my lottery ticket on that."

The animal's blue-grey skin is almost hairless and appears to be covered with mange. A closer look at the animal's jaw line reveals a serious overbite and four huge canine teeth, and a long, rat-like tail curls behind the animal's emaciated frame.

verder

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Op vrijdag 15 oktober 2004 10:53 schreef The_stranger het volgende:

grappig dat twee verschillende quotes uit hetzelfde artikel een heel ander beeld kunnen geven...

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'New' giant ape found in DR Congo

Scientists believe they have discovered a new group of giant apes in the jungles of central Africa.
The animals, with characteristics of both gorillas and chimpanzees, have been sighted in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo.



According to local villagers, the apes are ferocious, and even capable of killing lions.

A report about the mysterious creatures is published in this week's edition of the UK magazine New Scientist.

If they are a new species of primate, it could be one of the most important wildlife discoveries in decades.

The discovery of these apes "reveals just how much we still have to learn about our closest living relatives," New Scientist says.

They stand up to two metres tall, the size of gorillas, and like gorillas, they nest on the ground, not in trees.

But they live hundreds of km away from any other known gorilla populations, and their diet is closer to that of chimpanzees.

hele artikel - BBC

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Op vrijdag 15 oktober 2004 19:56 schreef HarigeKerel het volgende:
Het lijkt mij meer een ondersoort van de gorilla ofzo...

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In a report published in next Saturday's issue, the British weekly says the mysterious creatures have been seen in forests around the towns of Bondo and Bili, in the far north of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From the rare eyewitness sightings, bone discoveries and a video recording, the animals have large, black faces, are up to two metres tall and weigh between 85 and 102 kilos.

That would put them in the size category of gorillas -- but the region lies 500 kilometres from the edges of the known habitats of the western and eastern species of gorilla.

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Anecdotal evidence about the unusual apes dates back to photos taken by European hunters in 1898, when the region was the Belgian Congo.

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MYSTERY ‘MINI-MONSTER’ WASHED UP

PARTON residents are baffled by what has been described as a “mini Loch Ness Monster” washed up on their beach.

Joan Singleton, from Firth View was strolling on the foreshore near to where Lowca Beck flows out to sea when she came upon the “monster”.

She alerted friends, saying she had never seen anything like it.

Jack Southam, skipper of the Whitehaven sea angling charterboat Riptide, said on seeing a photograph of it: “I have never seen anything like this in all my years at sea.”

Another Parton resident told The Whitehaven News: “It seems to have a seal’s body, the tail of a whale, fins on top and sides, but also claws and really sharp teeth.”



Do you have any clues what this peculiar beastie might be?
Call our newsdesk on (01946) 595136.

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Big Cat Society calls for calm after big cat encounter in London

The British Big Cats Society set up 5 years ago to monitor and study exotic felines in Britain – called for ‘calm’ today; after a big cat encounter in south London left a man with minor injuries.

Anthony Holder, had ventured to the bottom of his garden during the early hours of yesterday morning, after hearing his own pet howling.

“All of a sudden I saw this big black thing pounce on to me and it knocked me flying! I just didn’t know where I was, and the next thing there was this black figure laying on my chest – it was growling and hissing at me and then it started scratching!”

Last Year, the British Big Cats Society released data from a fifteen month survey, The results, published on the BBCS website, www.britishbigcats.org, indicate that there is little doubt that big cats are roaming Britain.
 

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Op zaterdag 26 maart 2005 23:38 schreef mechatronics het volgende:
Pas nog een hele docu gezien op BNN zelfs over het El Chupacabra verhaal

tja, wat je daarvan moet denken