The orang pendek of
Sumatra in Indonesia's Greater Sundas island group has attracted considerable
cryptozoological attention, but could there also be diminutive yet previously
less-publicised man-beasts existing still-undiscovered by science on
Indonesia's much smaller Lesser Sundas island of Flores?
Does an ornate
16th-century painting from India's Mughal Empire hold the key to the former
existence in Asia of a mystery cat analogous to Africa's king cheetah?
How can the vast
diversity of reports appertaining to mysterious freshwater cryptids across the
length and breadth of Spain be explained?
What is the
taxonomic identity of the koolookamba, a longstanding African mystery ape known
not only from reports but also from captive specimens - just an aberrant
version of chimpanzee, or a taxonomically discrete form in its own right, or
even a bona fide chimpanzee-gorilla hybrid?
These are the
fascinating subjects and thought-provoking questions under consideration in the
papers contained within Volume 2 of the Journal of Cryptozoology - the
world's only peer-reviewed scientific periodical devoted to mystery animals -
which is now available to pre-order here.
Don't miss it!
Engravings
from 1896 of Mafuca, the most famous koolookamba to have been exhibited in
captivity
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